그래픽 : 좋음
대사 : 많음
탐험성 : 좋음
워킹 : 많음
연출 : 좋음
환경 : 멋짐
배우 연기 : 좋음
버그 & 오류: 안보임
최적화 : 갓
퍼즐 : 욕나옴

Juego de puzzles corto pero intenso. Te da todo lo que necesitas para resolver los puzzles y no es injusto ni mentiroso ♥♥♥ las respuestas. Historia aceptable que te llevará hasta el final ♥♥♥ ganas. Gráficamente está muy bien, bonico y sin peros. Bastante correcto el juego. Me ha gustado :)

Call of the Sea is impressive and immersive. I can’t think of many more examples of a better puzzle game with such an interesting story binding it together.

Easier to read review Here [saveorquit.com]

Challenging puzzles, a charming relationship study and an intriguing story make Call of the Sea a superior adventure puzzle game.

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure and puzzle game set during the 1930’s.

After years and years of appointments and medical referrals, the doctors have all but given up on Norah’s unusual and rare condition. In pain, and suffering from horrible nightmares and visions, her husband Harry decides to embark on a quest to solve the riddle behind her affliction. The trail takes him to a remote island in the South Pacific that the locals fear and have named “The Island of Death”. When Harry goes missing without trace, Norah musters all her energy and travels to the island to investigate.

I loved Call of the Sea. I just didn’t want to stop playing it.

The atmosphere is superbly done with layers and layers of lore, intrigue and mystery added to the mix at just the right times. There is even a short, but informative, seven-part prequel story in the news section to wet your appetite and introduce you to the two main characters. Check it out before you start!

I really enjoy good character development and the relationship between the two main characters is what drives the story forward. Norah and Harry are as deeply in love as the day they met, and this is portrayed wonderfully through voiced cut scenes, and letter correspondence between the two of them. The game manages to convince you that they have the perfect relationship and would do anything for each other. There are lots of different types of lore lying around to enforce this notion, from inscribed photographs showing special memories to events in their lives that we witness. I really enjoyed this part of the game as it made it feel like more than just a puzzle game loosely tied together.

The game felt like a true adventure where you cared about the characters and you wanted to know what happened to Harry and you wanted Norah to find him.

There is plenty of exploration to do, and lots of objects to examine. Objects that can be examined will invoke either a text-based summation and/or a voiced comment from Norah. Inspecting objects will add to the lore and reveal parts about the story and island. It is all cleverly layered and keeps the intrigue high.

Puzzles were imaginative but quite difficult I thought. I managed to solve them without any guides apart from two. One of these puzzles is broken and the other was slightly misleading. The puzzles were cleverly entwined around the story, which is mostly Polynesian based, and added to the immersion and feeling that the puzzle was part of finding Harry rather than a disconnected puzzle for the sake of it.

Some puzzles required making notes, even though there is a diary where all important clues and puzzle notes get added. The diary can only be brought up on full screen however which means you are flicking between puzzle and diary. I would have liked the option to have the diary visible alongside the puzzle so that you refer to it and solve the puzzle simultaneously.

I think most people will struggle with these puzzles. They take a bit of exploration to find the objects needed to provide the clues and when you have all the clues, it takes a fair bit of brain power to work them out. Personally, they hit just the right difficulty level with me and although I struggled, it was immensely satisfying when you reach that Eureka moment.

The island setting is beautiful and voice acting is superb. Cut scenes are dramatic and have a high production feel. The whole game feels mysterious and eerie.

Norah often thinks aloud and keeps the viewer in touch with her feelings and concerns, all beautifully voice acted. 

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The story is one of the best I have experienced in a puzzle game. Characters are strong and well developed with wonderful music and sound effects accompanying it.

There are six chapters and I played through the game twice to gain all the achievements. It took me around twenty hours to do so.

Call of the Sea is one of the best story-driven puzzle games I have played. It is unusual to find such a well-developed character base alongside such an intriguing story which matures as it progresses.

Puzzles may prove a little too difficult for some less experienced puzzle gamers but overall, the game is wonderfully produced and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would highly recommend it to puzzle lovers who like a good story.

You play as Norah Everhart, devoted wife to Harry Everhart.

In search of your missing husband, you arrive on a mysterious island and must explore for clues to Harry’s whereabouts. Along the way you will find evidence of your husband’s progress in trying to find a cure for your illness, and clues to his whereabouts and what happened to his party.

Norah has a journal where she notes important finds, and documents clues to puzzles which block her progress. You can refer to the diary at any time which provides invaluable help. The diary has a notes section which recaps the story and a log section which places all clues to puzzles.

Norah's journal contains the logbook where story elements are recorded and the notes section where puzzle solutions are kept. 

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If an object is examinable, then an eye symbol will appear. The object can be rotated which sometimes reveals more information. Norah will comment on the object and any important information is noted.

Sometimes Norah will find a letter that Harry has written for her. This produces a small cutscene detailing Harry’s efforts in finding a cure and his concerns and worries.

Collecting clues is vital to progressing so you’ll need to examine everything you can. The notebook page should be full if you are harboring all valuable evidence so if there is a gap on the page you’ll need to keep looking.

Using the evidence in your notes and logs you’ll need to solve the puzzles at hand. You do not have an inventory as such but occasionally you will pick up objects that will be automatically used on the correct puzzle.

The puzzles are varied and interesting and can be quite challenging. There is a mixture of smaller and easier puzzles along with bigger ones with multiple facets. One of the first puzzles you’ll encounter is actually broken and referring to a guide proved this. If you get stuck on the lens aligner puzzle then you’ll need to look up the solution until it’s fixed.

Keyboard or controller can be used.

There are lots of interesting achievements to gather.

The graphics were beautiful. The game felt polished and professional. I did get some screen tearing in the early chapters though but this seemed to resolve itself later.

The island is well detailed and they’ve put a lot of effort into the Polynesian look and feel.

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Voice acting was superb and there is a wonderful orchestral tune played for dramatic effect when required.

Call of the Sea has the complete package.

I wish there were more games around like this. Often games suffer in one department and excel in others. Call of the Sea manages to produce a wonderfully intriguing story, characters who you want to invest your feelings with, a great setting full of eerie tales and mystery, and genuinely challenging and clever puzzles.

I don’t think you’ll be disappointed if you buy this. Definitely one of the best games I have played this year.

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克苏鲁神话属于较为冷门的话题。虽然名字广为人知，但实际真正了解的人并不算多一知半解就玩烂梗的小鬼很烦人。我也是早就听说过克苏鲁，但并不了解。这款游戏也算是我首次接触克苏鲁文化。或许有不少玩家与我一样，对克苏鲁文化并不熟悉。因此我会在本篇评测的后文中简要分享一下，从网络上摘录的克苏鲁介绍。

本部作品的画面属于写实偏卡通风格。虽然精细程度不高，但这类独特的画面处理方式，使物体较抽象的展现在玩家眼前，即使游戏仅有35G的容量，表现却让人感到舒适。游戏的色调方面，不同场景下的色调截然不同。冷暖色调的对撞形成了鲜明的对比。室外的阳光明媚，环境优美。茂密的丛林，绚丽的花朵与鸟，展现出活跃的生命力。每一个画面几乎都可以截图当壁纸。而秘密处所内环境阴暗，寒冷。奇异的物件，时不时出现的诡异画面，这种氛围，缓缓的给予玩家一种惊悚或恐怖的压力，进而上升到心理层面的恐惧。这可能就是克苏鲁文化的特点吧，通常没有直观的惊吓，取而代之的是慢慢深入内心的害怕。

游戏中，玩家身处于一个半开放的环境，需要在探索中解密，推进游戏流程。故事分为六个大章，每个章节中会有主要的解密流程以及一些隐藏内容。每个章节完成会重新加载游戏，并播放一段剧情短片。游戏的解密中规中矩，不难但也不算简单。谜题没有具体的提示，玩家需要在探索中发掘。而主角拥有一个笔记本，笔记本除了对游戏剧情做一定程度的解说，更主要的功能就是储存线索。当玩家接触到了重要的线索或游戏内容，主角会自动将其记录到笔记本中并进行组合。很多时候玩家不知道谜题题面，或没有解密思路时，可以参考笔记本中的提示。

游戏的背景中，女主身患怪病，深爱女主的男主为了治好怪病，而走上了一次不归之旅。女主则是为了找回男主，而再次踏上了这趟旅程。游戏虽然以克苏鲁为题材，但并没有引用大量难懂的克苏鲁神话作为剧情内容。即使有一些复杂的概念，游戏中的剧情也做了较为详尽的解说和介绍。因此像和我一样，不了解克苏鲁神话，但喜爱解密的玩家，也可以尝试本作。游戏的剧情并不难以理解。

克苏鲁神话的诞生
克苏鲁神话并非传统意义上的神话，而是由美国作家洛夫克拉夫特（lovecraft，人称爱手艺）创作的一系列幻想恐怖小说。后人根据他的小说中的一些设定发展出了克苏鲁神话体系。

克苏鲁出现于爱手艺的一篇中篇小说《克苏鲁的呼喊》，里边详细描写了邪神克鲁苏及其疯狂的信徒，该邪神的原型可能来自于北欧神话的北海巨妖。克苏鲁神话以邪神克苏鲁作为这个体系的名字，事实上，克苏鲁在爱手艺的小说中并不出彩，不过克苏鲁更具有辨识度的形象更容易被人们记住，于是成为了克苏鲁神话的代名词。

摘自360图书馆克苏鲁神话体系简介[www.360doc.com]

克苏鲁的特点
在克苏鲁神话里面，原子弹的发明就是奈亚拉托提普教给爱因斯坦的，目的是让人类更快的自我灭绝，完成“大清扫”的任务。真正能在这个世界里闲庭信步安然入睡的存在是那些不可名状的疯狂的邪恶的远古支配者们，他们的存在不需要解释，他本身象征着的就是毫无理由的破坏和混沌。所谓的文明的智慧在他们伟大的愚钝和疯狂面前不堪一击，智慧种族的挣扎不过是在他们手掌里上演的闹剧罢了。

简而言之，克苏鲁神话，是与常规的神话体系建立秩序，神明为人类所见的主线所完全相背的，它代表着无序、疯狂、混沌。人类自以为是最强大的种族，迟早要征服宇宙。但是殊不知，真正的宇宙掌控者，沉睡在各种各样的空间之中，智慧种族只是他们手中的玩具。人类只要窥得古神/旧日支配者/外神的全貌就会癫狂致死！当他们从沉眠之中醒来的时候，就会夺取人类对地球、对宇宙的支配，让这个世界重归混沌，被无知与疯狂所笼罩。

摘自知乎克苏鲁神话简介[zhuanlan.zhihu.com]

Call of the sea — очень красочная игра-головоломка. Здесь вас ждёт таинственное приключение в самом сердце одного из островов Полинезии.

1934 год. Нашу героиню зовут Нора Эверхарт. Прошёл год с тех пор, как её муж, Гарри, отправился в экспедицию вместе со своей командой. Вот уже очень давно от него не было никаких вестей, из-за чего Нора переживает, её даже мучают кошмары. Не в силах больше терпеть, девушка собирает вещи, а затем отправляется на поиски своего благоверного. Так Нора и оказалась на экзотическом острове, совсем одна, лишь с несколькими странными подсказками, но разве может чего-нибудь бояться тот человек, которым движет любовь?

Необходимо пробираться вглубь острова по следам группы, оставившей после себя множество вещей. Всё это можно осмотреть, благодаря чему Нора будет по крупицам собирать информацию, подсказки, и заносить это в блокнот. Головоломок не так много, они разнообразные, но очень душные и нудные. Мой совет: скрупулëзно осматривайте каждый сантиметр острова, так как лучше сразу потратить какое-то время на сие, чем бегать потом повсюду и не понимать, что вы пропустили и как это теперь найти.

Как видно по скриншотам, игра весьма и весьма красивая, с простой, но сочной графикой. Локации разнообразные, начиная с зелёных зарослей, заканчивая полуразрушенными зданиями, оставленными древней цивилизацией. Нам даже удастся попутешествовать под водой, причём не раз.

Call of the Sea 

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Par : My name is you.

‌Оно тут отменное. Музыка порой играла такая, что невольно представляешь себя расхитителем гробниц или искателем какой-нибудь мифической страны, богатой несметными сокровищами. В общем, атмосфера, благодаря звукам, была пропитана духом приключений.

Не понравилось:

• Головоломки, как было сказано, не впечатлили.
  
• В общем и целом, это обычная игра, и я искренне не понимаю, почему у неё столь высокая цена?
  
• Люблю лавкрафтовскую тему в играх, поэтому мне грустно, что тут так мало внимания уделили этому.

Хотелось написать негативный обзор, но сюжет спас ситуацию. Мне понравилась развязка игры, к тому же нам дают сделать выбор, который и влечёт за собой ту или иную концовку. По моему мнению, Call of the Sea — уверенный середнячок, можно приобрести по скидке. Я же ожидала от игры чуть большего.

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• 色鮮やかで幻想的なビジュアル
  
• 表現豊かなボイスアクト
  
• 真相に迫るストーリーテリング
  
• 美しいサウンドトラック
  
• 任意のタイミングで行えるチャプターセレクト
  
• 取り逃した要素の明示

• 60Hz以外でプレイすると同期が取れていない箇所がある
  
• フィールドがそれなりに広いため、移動に時間がかかる

　スペインのマドリードに拠点を置くOut of the Blue Gamesが制作した3Dのアドベンチャーゲーム。開発は約10名強で行い、コロナ禍以前よりリモート体制を敷いて、プリプロからマスターアップまでに約1年半かかっているそうです。一見すると静止画のように美しいビジュアルのため、ポイント＆クリック型のゲームに見えますが、本作はFPS視点で3D空間を歩き探索する類のものになります。プロローグを含むと全7章で構成されており、行く先々で様々な障害に遭遇しますが、周辺で得られる情報を基にパズルを読み解き、活路を切り開いていくことになります。

　ノラの家系は代々原因不明の謎の奇病を患っており、ノラにもその徴として手に黒い病斑が現れていた。ノラの母も同じ病を患って命を落としており、形見としてオルゴールを受け継いでからは、夜な夜な奇怪な夢に苛まれるようにもなっていた。ひどい時は熱を生ずることもあった。夫ハリーはそうした妻の病状を見かねて調査を始め、病斑が南太平洋の部族が持つタトゥーの性質に似ていることを突きとめる。ハリーは調査隊とともに、地元の漁師達が不吉だとして近寄らなかった孤島へ向かうが、その後消息を絶った。帰らぬ夫の無事を確認するため、ノラは一人夫が消息を絶った島へ向かおうとしていた。


　自然の緑と島の中を流れる水の青、そしてその周囲を包む白い砂や岩の色彩がとにもかくにも美しいです。夕陽や差し込む光によって綺麗なグラデーションが生じており、立ち止まって眺めると絵画のように見える瞬間があります。コントラストが高い画作りでありながら、調和が取れたアートの美しさは本作の琴線足りえると思います。

　美しい島の外周部から物語は始まり、内側へ踏み入るごとにある種の異変を覚え始めます。消息を絶った夫の生死がどうなったのかという気掛かりに加えて、点在している古代遺跡の異質さが目を惹くようになっていきます。また本作では遭遇したパズルやその解法に関するヒントであったり、先行した調査隊の記録など、島でオブジェクトを見つけるごとに自動でノラが手記に記録していくのですが、その記録内容も徐々に不穏なものへ変わっていきます。夫達の身に一体何が起きたのか「間接的に」知っていくという物語の展開には、先を知りたいのに情報が得られないというもどかしさもあり、かなり惹き付けられるものがありました。

　美しさの中に滲み出す不穏な空気は聴覚によっても助長されます。Eduardo de la Iglesiaさんが作曲したサウンドトラックは綺麗な音色が流れているときもあれば、荘厳な曲調になったり、急に変調する不気味さの漂うものもあって、本作の雰囲気を上手く表現されています。そこに降りしきる雨だったり、打ち付ける波風のような環境音もあって、単独で孤島に上陸している状況を強く印象付け、プレイヤーの感情を煽ることができていると思います。

　島での行動はノラが単独で行い、何かを見つけるごとに独り言をつぶやくというスタイルになっています。言わば本作の大半はノラの独り言で構成されているため、その部分の説得力に欠けると作品全体の質に影響することになります。その点において、ノラ役を演じるシシー・ジョーンズさんの起用は正解だったと思います。Firewatchのデリラで表現されていた情緒溢れる物言いは本作でも健在で、ノラというキャラクターに存在感を与えていました。「聞いていてすごく落ち着く声」なので、不気味さとのバランスを取る意味でも上手く機能していた感があります。


　ゲームとしての遊びやすさという点においては、進行度によって移動できる範囲が限られるため、パズル自体はその場の情報によって解が導かれるものばかりです。ですが、そのヒントは細かく調べないと見失ってしまうこともあり、パズルゲームが苦手だと少し詰まってしまうところもあるかもしれません。現に私は何度か行き詰まりました。
　一方で、いつでもクリアしたチャプターに戻ることができ、チャプターセレクト画面で取り逃した要素が明示されていた点はありがたかったです。ノラが調べたオブジェクトによって手記を付けるというのは先述しましたが、その埋まり具合などが実績に関与していたため、取り逃した要素のために一からプレイし直すような煩わしさはありませんでした。
　本作はFPS操作で移動を行い、ダッシュ操作もあるにはあるのですが、それなりに島が広いのとダッシュ速度自体がそれほど速くないため、人によっては移動が遅く感じられるかもしれません。

　気になった挙動として、私は240Hzのディスプレイを使用しているのですが、リフレッシュレートを240Hzに設定していると「特定のオブジェクト」を調べたときに音声ファイル(ノラのボイス)が再生されるまで数分以上かかることがありました。場合によってはアプリが再生待ちのまま進行しなくなることもあります。リフレッシュレートを60Hzに設定するとこの問題は一切発生しなかったため、暫定的に回避することはできますが、いちいち設定を直すのが煩わしいので可能なら対処して欲しいと思いました。



　私が本作を手にするために事前情報を仕入れていたわけでもなく、単にストアページのアイキャッチイラストがなんとなく格好良かったから購入した口でした。そして実際にプレイしてみると、そのアイキャッチのイメージイラストと同じような景観が目の前に広がっていました。すごく美しいライティング、綺麗なBGM、謎を呼ぶストーリー。調査隊の足取りを追ううちに、探していた対象が変わって、いつしか疑念が確信に変わっていく。思わず唸ってしまうクライマックス。良かった…。
　アドベンチャー好きで、FPS操作でも酔わない体質ならプレイして損はないです。「Firewatch」のシシー・ジョーンズの演技や映画「The Shape of Water」が好きだった人も是非。

Graphic adventure (with puzzles of medium difficulty) mixed with a walking simulator. It's interesting. The areas are vast and there is no map in the game to orient yourself. I consider this a flaw as it forces you to remember the areas you visited and if you don't play for a few days, well you'll forget where you went. Good graphics and good soundtrack. The narration and endless collection of documents allows you to understand the story very well. Overall grade 8/10

One of the best games you could end 2020 with. Call of the Sea is extremely engaging in all of its aspects. The atmosphere created by the sounds and music makes you enter this world and stay in it along the incredible adventure of Norah.

The characters and the story are well developed, thanks to the different items you find all over the place that give you details of how these characters were and what happened to them. Not to mention the incredible voice acting it has.

The puzzles are varied in their style: from timing to rhythm, memory, and spatial reasoning.

It's a must-play for anyone that enjoys exploration, story-rich, puzzle games.

Если почитать негативные обзоры на Call of the Sea, то игра не очень-то стоящая. Не исключено, что она просто попала ко мне в нужный момент.

Например, я не хочу браться за Obduction и The Witness. Они слишком долгие. Слишком пространные. Там тонны загадок. Поэтому - не сейчас (но может потом). В Call of the Sea всё действие занимает 6-8 часов. И есть разделение на несколько уровней. Каждый уровень - это по сути глава и без того небольшой повести. И это хорошо - спасибо, мне сейчас достаточно.

Или вот, например, What Remains of Edith Finch. Или Draugen. Everybody's Gone To The Rapture. Не хочу симулятор ходьбы. Не откажусь от хотя бы небольшой пищи для размышлений, чтобы не уснуть за одними красивыми видами и пространными диалогами/монологами. В Call of the Sea на каждую главу в основном по 2-3 задачки - хорошо, самое то, мне подходит.

Или Layers of Fear. Observer там. SOMA. Не-не, совсем мимо. Не надо мне всех этих хорроров, скримеров и дичи - мне по жизни и так хватает. У нас тут влияние Лавкрафта в полный рост, а на странице Call of the Sea вообще написано 6+. На самом деле не соглашусь, но вот с ребёнком 8-10 лет в это уже вполне можно играть вместе (хотя лучше сначала пройти самому и решить - пара резких моментов всё же есть). Но и взрослому мне неожиданные находки в избитой тематике - понравились.

Некоторые считают, что главная героиня много говорит (ха-ха, в Oxenfree поиграйте). Другим не понравились концовки (а мне понравились обе). Третьим не зашла немного наивная любовная линия (возможно вы не поверите, это удивительно, но люди могут любить искренне и красиво).

Четвёртые, пятые, пятидесятые. А мне всё ОК. Вопрос момента.

I'm kind of an idiot and this hit that sweet spot for puzzle games where I didn't have to google anything but it was still challenging. Maybe slightly too easy, considering I'm dumb as hell. Would have been nice if some of Norah's hint dialog only got triggered after so many minutes of trying instead of her just blurting out what she needs to do the instant you see the puzzle.

Way better story than some other puzzle games though. Overall this was a good time.

Not a long game. Took me 7 hours steam says. None of the puzzles are complex or difficult but they do make you think just enough to feel like you accomplished something. And if you're not a puzzle master you'll probably get the puzzles just fine without being frustrated or needing a walk-through. The story is really good. Play it for the story.

The best thing by far about Call of the Sea is its approach to puzzles. Unlike many adventure puzzle games where you're either trying to make literally any sense of a completely opaque set of machines and/or inventory items, or others where the "puzzles" are really just about finding the One Important Clue That Solves the Puzzle in some hidden spot on the map, Call of the Sea does this really cool thing where it "freely" gives you absolutely all the INFORMATION you need -- all the ancient symbols are translated for you in the notes of the expedition whose trail you're following, for instance -- but it tells you nothing about what to DO with that information. So the puzzles are like, I understand exactly how this machine works and what each button represents, but now I have to actually-think-as-the-player about what my goal in manipulating it is.

In that way it's much closer to, like, puzzle-hunt-style puzzles than the vast majority of games I've played, and I found it really refreshing. Nothing was so difficult that I actually got stuck on it, but every single puzzle made me stop and review my notes and just THINK for a minute or two, and I absolutely loved it.

(Also the game is gorgeous, and I enjoyed its take on "what if Lovecraftian cosmic horror but the protagonist was actually super into it?" The dialogue writing is pretty ham-handed, but the overall story and vocal performances are both solid.)

I give this game a somewhat soft yes.

The atmosphere is pretty nice, the visuals are pretty beautiful, a reminder that good visuals are a result of direction, not pixel count or texture fidelity. Filters and effects can pull a lot of weight. Game never felt heavy either, kind of like sea of thieves.

I'd play more games in this setting. Yes, I am aware, ha ha miskatonic. 1930s stuff just has a certain degree of class, you know? "Good old days" type stuff.

Puzzles were okay or fine. Nothing too difficult, but some of them required a lot of walking around to assemble all the parts. Neat for exploring the areas, but if you need to backtrack to adjust some levers or whatever the slow movement speed gets annoying. They were more like speed bumps to slow you down and make you look at the scenery rather than any real challenge. When I had issues figuring out what the game wanted of me, things got a bit frustrating. Only happened a couple times, though, mostly with overthinking puzzles.

Story was somewhat basic, but moderately well executed. Island expedition, hidden secrets, usual stuff. The characters (where they existed) seemed fine. The writing was functional. It got across the story beats and the relationship between the couple pretty well. I got the sense that they cared about each other, which some other games fail to manage. I felt like the monologue at the end wasn't that good. It was a big story point and likely very challenging to write, so I'm not especially surprised they didn't pull it off.

Also, the protagonist is supposed to be super sickly, but very little in the gameplay conveys this to the player in the first bit of the game. You move as slow as you do in the rest of the game, even though you're supposed to have major issues getting around due to illness. Even when the protagonist exclaims how good she feels, she moves as slowly. No getting tired out and having to take a break, no panting, no nothing. You forget she was bedridden before the events of the game.

BINARY ENDING MADE ME UNHAPPY. I'm railroaded through a linear series of puzzles all game and at the end they throw a "which door do you want to go through" ending selector. Not even the common courtesy to create a save right before the ending, either. I'm not playing the last chapter again to get the second ending. The puzzles (simple but a tad tedious) and how the game handles (slow movement) doesn't make for a good experience the second time round.

Voice acting was meh/bad. Main character also didn't do that well in the final monologue. Kinda fell flat imo. It was serviceable, but given the loneliness of the game her voice HAS to carry the game. I don't think she did that well. There should have been better sound engineering with the soundtrack or environmental effects to help prop up her voice.

ACCENTS WERE STRAIGHT TRASH.
The main character sounded like a american person trying to do a transatlantic accent and failing, slipping in and out of a mediocre british accent mid-sentence. The husband sounded like a british person trying to do a translantic accent and failing, sounding more like a weird american. If you see british period pieces on television much you can pick these guys out from a mile away. I get that the transatlantic accent is dead (its a 1900s-1960s radio television accent that was standardized across american media of the time. It's very particular an noone really speaks it anymore) but this showing is kinda pathetic. Either get voice talent that can handle tough orders like transatlantic accents, or stay out of the setting. It sounds very bad when you attempt it and fail.

Native/local guy sounded like a american/european person trying to do their image of a pacific islander accent. Maybe i'm wrong, but it has a couple tells in how the pronunciation seems filtered through a fluency in english or another romance/romance lineage language. It's jarring, and if I was a muckraking games journo with no soul I would possibly say how problematic it is. I'm not, so I'll just call it poor execution. Whoever managed the voice acting needs to get language specialists in for this sort of work or get gud. It's worth the billable hours, if only to get pedants like me off your back.

A couple nitpicks;
There's a weapon case with a exploded drawing of a shotgun, labeled Winchester M12. This of course referring to the Winchester Model of 1912. There are times when such a firearm would be called a Model 12, and there are times when such a firearm would be called a M1912. However, there is absolutely no occasion in the setting in which the game takes place that a Winchester 1912 would be called a M12. It's anachronistic. Shortened year designations came into vogue somewhere past the 1940s, probably after the americans started running around the world with all manner of M1s and M2s and M3s. It's bad flavor and shows the difficulty of trying to make a setting that takes place in the past.

The schematic image seems to be of the right gun, but it also shows a bayonet (cut off on the right of the image ingame) and a sling attached. Whose schematic for a firearm (probably patent drawings) is going to also show the accouterments? There is no cutout for either of these things in the gun case. Also, why are there cutouts for individual shells instead of a cutout for a box of shells? Even if we accept that in this particular case the decision was made to give spots for individual shells, there should be vertical holes instead of cylindrical cutouts. If you have such special ammunition that you need to keep them individually separated in the case, you'd want the walls of the shell to be supported instead of out in the open where they could get squished and jostled. Yes, yes, visual clarity, whatever. But period piece flavor comes from the pursuit of aesthetic authenticity, not from merely looking immediately identifiable to the casual observer.

On a more technical note, the icons that pop up when you move over an interactable item are too precise. You have to be directly over them sometimes before they pop up. For example, I was looking at a microscope that I wanted to interact with. I was centered over the middle of the microscope, and nothing happened. After being stuck and moving around for a bit, I accidentally went up right next to the microscope and found the interaction icon inside the viewfinder. Why did I specifically have to look at the viewfinder of the microscope to use it? In another situation, I had issues interacting with a ladder. Because the ladder was on a slanted surface, the interact icon was only at head height once i was right next to it. From a couple feet away, the interact icon was above my head because the person placing that icon didn't account for the player being at a different height due to the slanted surface.

No bugs or gamebreaking freezes, though.

Overall. A pretty well made solid game with no major faults. It isn't bad if you like this sort of thing, but don't expect to enjoy playing it more than once. I'm of middling intellegence/smartness/brainspeed/thinkthinkfastfast and I took about 7 hours to complete.

Nevermind, actually, 100% get it. Devs should be rewarded financially for games that aren't trash or riffled with microtransactions or insanely buggy. This game is pretty good, full stop. They should get money so they can make more pretty good games.

那句老话，游戏名字和介绍没有带克苏鲁的克苏鲁游戏才是好的克苏鲁游戏。（天啊我一句话居然带了三个克苏鲁）
标标准准的克苏鲁风格的故事，但没有大量的惊悚血腥要素，画面精美，气氛营造十分优秀，音效和音乐简直神了（强烈推荐带耳机玩）。
解谜方面大部分都还中规中矩，有一两个谜题过与绕弯和过于冗长。
总的来说整个游戏过程就是体验了一个在克苏鲁式世界观下发生的发生的一个浪漫故事，完整，优美，值得回味。
总之就是强烈推荐。

Coup de coeur de cette fin d'année 2020.
Ce jeu mérite d'avoir un peu plus de visibilité sur steam car l'histoire est super !
D'habitude je ne suis pas du genre a lire les notes dans les jeux mais là je me suis régalé.
Il faut a peu près 6h de jeu pour finir l'histoire.
Si vous aimez les jeux d'énigmes et d'aventure, n'hésitez pas !

If you like beautiful puzzle games and Lovecraftian world you probably are going to like it.
However the puzzles are not great designed. They mostly do not respect your time.

You walk around, find clues that get automatically jotted down in the journal and then you just have to put the things inside the journal together. This lead for me to a disconnection of the world and the puzzles - I never really had to think on my own, because I just had to gather all the stuff for the journal and then do a puzzle that had nothing to do with the world.

There are many puzzles where you have to walk a few times between the same locations, while the walking is very slow. At the same time there were some puzzles that were not completely clear because you can understand the hints in different ways. Reading the solution in a guide cleared up the confusion. Which should not be necessary imho.
(Spoiler: I am talking specifically about the tiki puzzle in chapter 2 and the organ puzzle in chapter 3 ).
For me it is not enjoyable mapping symbols to numbers 3 times in my brain - that's not an interesting puzzle to me it just takes some energy and in the end feels kind of like work.

So in the end i stopped playing, although i like the topic and the atmosphere, it's just that the puzzles are very annoying to me.

面白いのに日本語レビューが少なくて悲しいのでレビュー


主人公の病気の治療の手がかりを探しに行った夫が失踪したのでその跡を追いかけて、何かわけありそうな島を探索するというよくある「島の隠された秘密を解き明かせ！」系アドベンチャーゲーム。

ものすごく既視感を感じるあらすじだが、ストーリーはなかなか珍しい方向性でよくできており、グラフィックもかなりきれい。パズルの得手不得手によって変わるが7時間程度でクリアできるので気楽に手を付けられる。ちなみにトロコンは+2時間もあれば可能。

吹き替えはないが日本語字幕の精度もかなり高く違和感を感じたりすることもほぼない。まれに主人公の女性の一人称が「俺」になり逞しく感じたり、夫がいきなり女性らしい言葉遣いで話し出して正気を失ったかと一瞬勘違いする程度。まあ基本独白なので混乱するほどではない。

スクショやPVを見て少しでも興味を持った方、グラフィックは裏切らないしストーリーはいい意味で裏切るから買おう。


良いことばかり言ったので以下気になった点

一部のパズルが結構難しいので人によっては詰む恐れがある。最悪攻略を見ることも視野に入れておく必要も。コミュニティのガイド欄にヒントの外部ページのURLを貼ってくださっている方がいるので、答えは見たくないけどヒントは欲しい場合そっちに行くのもあり。私も大変お世話になりました。ただし英語。

探索中発見し損ねたものがあっても発見した体で話が進むため、重要な伏線を見逃すと後々「あの○○はそういう意味だったのね！」とか言われても「チョットマッテナニソレシラナイ…」となる。ストーリーに関わる重要な発見をすると手帳に書き込まれるため、ページに空白が出来ていないか手帳を確認することで回避可能。クライマックスの伏線回収で一部「…？？？」となった私と同じ轍を踏まないように。

また歩くのが遅いため走るのが基本になると思われる。まあそれでもまだ遅いんですが。

あと私の環境だけかもしれないがやたらフレームレートが落ちるポイントがある。


まあ総合的に見ればかなりおすすめなのでぜひ。

PC owners beware. Like many others (see discussion thread, `Tips for playing on PC', I've had increasing problems with disappearing or non-functioning hotspots. Due to this I've abandoned the game near the end of chapter 2. Unfortunately Steam tell me I'm not eligible for a refund because I've exceed the game time limit - ironically, due to repeated failed attempts to solve puzzles that involve the said malfunctioning hotspots.
Because of this I can't possibly recommend the game to PC owners (nb I have Windows 10, 64 bit). Even without this problem I found the game a little disappointing due to the fairly simple puzzles. It's great if you want lush visuals and nothing too taxing in the gameplay.

存在剧透。

故事的开始是主角诺拉患上了不知名的病征，黑色的斑点布满双手，身子骨也日渐孱弱。而丈夫哈里为了治好诺拉的病，前往某处神秘岛屿寻找医治方法，却在数月后了无音讯。而玩家将扮演诺拉只身前往岛屿，去追寻哈里的踪迹。

游戏的画面运用了高饱和度的色彩，配合具有克系元素的美术风格，使得画面呈现出一个光怪陆离的世界； 画面表现力富有张力的同时，在光照效果充足的情况下甚至会有点晃眼。

本作依靠诺拉的绘本和散落在地图里的线索构建了游戏的解密玩法。 解密逻辑基本上都很考验玩家的图像联想能力，难度因人而异；而游戏里的每章地图并非线性设计，在能随意走动的情况下，谜题从何开始以及线索搜集的完整性反而是更花心思的地方。且行走速度哪怕按住shift键也较为缓慢。

在剧情上，依靠诺拉的自白和哈里一封封未寄出的信推动着剧情的进程， 地图上能探索到的所有物件诺拉都能作出反应，即使在一段稍长无互动的路程里，诺拉也会有阶段性的讲话，哪怕游戏里没有一个人物模型，也能让故事里的每个人物变得更加具体。

正因为这些语音和文本，我们知道了原来诺拉的身体里流淌着可以永生的鱼人血液，是被选召的，是无关人士无法接受的馈赠；强行融入则会被夺取心智陷入癫狂，最终惨死。但诺拉不接受仪式，也同样命不久矣。在诺拉的话语中，我们确实能感觉到在岛上的她是充满活力的。

同样因为这些语音和文本，我们了解到诺拉和哈里是如此的相爱——哈里因为深爱诺拉，哪怕冒险团的成员相继死去或离开，也执意探寻病因的真相。在快知道谜底的时候，竟然说出不惜也变成鱼人的傻话，最终快被强烈欲望夺取心智的他皤然醒悟，毅然没去打开这危险的潘多拉。

而诺拉也深爱这哈里，拖着病怏怏的身子来找失踪的丈夫，每每看到哈里笨拙的草图总会忍俊不禁，在愈发接近真相的同时，话语里透露出对哈里安危的迫切担忧。 诺拉是如此的了解哈里，所以立马揭穿了故事最后的“骗局“——是否接受自己可以成为鱼人永生的命运？

如同强大最好的证明不是破坏而是守护，那哈里对诺拉的爱是不是也可以称为伟大——因为我爱你，所以我选择放手，把选择权交付给你，无论你是否选择与我在一起，我都欣然接受。


哈里没有被想拯救诺拉的执念冲昏头脑，对诺拉的爱让哈里保持理智，他依旧没变，还编织起“谎言”，笃定诺拉能轻易戳穿。那我有什么理由让诺拉放弃做人、遗忘思想和感情呢？

故事的最后，灯光下俩人幸福的合影，伴随着真情实感的钢琴弹唱，诺拉的身子终究还是变得更差了...曲未尽，诺拉的咳嗽愈发激烈，哈里满是担心，也抵不过诺拉想把歌唱完的倔强。尽管不是happy ending，哈里孑然一身，终生未再娶，但所幸他们俩拥有最后几年的快乐时光，不是吗？

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游戏的整体质量四平八稳，剧情上也存在着纰漏——诡异的克系背景终究只是背景，在后半段的剧情里存在感稍显薄弱，导致第三章的香农号失事显得十分”冤枉和无奈“——香农号的船员们死得不明不白。

但在生活如此糟糕的现实世界里，疫情迫使人们通过网络输出越来越多各种各样的情绪和观点，如同红色般热情但又充满危险。而游戏里诺拉和哈里的故事，就像游戏里所说”现实生活里，各色爱情故事不会止于结婚典礼，葬礼才是这些故事最终的结局“一样，再次提醒了我，仍存在着一种感情状态，没有轰轰烈烈，没有视死如归，彼此靠近，相互陪伴，逃离镜头，满眼是你。

«Нервы мои были на пределе, меня охватило некое извращённое, необъяснимое рвение, и я шёл к цели под светом яркой, зловещей луны. Там я увидел первобытные, циклопические блоки - творения безымянных, забытых эпох. Безмерная старость и угрюмая мрачность этого места давили на меня как никогда раньше, и я не мог увести свои мысли от сводящих с ума снов, и от пугающих легенд, которые аборигены связывали с руинами. И всё равно я брёл вперёд, словно стремясь к месту некоей сверхъестественной встречи, всё плотнее окружённый поразительными наваждениями, влечениями и псевдо-воспоминаниями. Одна только идея внезапного, одинокого спуска в эту неизведанную бездну, да ещё в ситуации, когда о моём местонахождении не знала ни одна живая душа, была совершеннейшим верхом безумия. Но снова, как и раньше, меня манил вперёд и прокладывал мне путь неизбежный рок».

Эта сокращённая цитата из повести Г.Ф. Лавкрафта «За гранью времён» могла бы послужить превосходным вступлением к «Зову моря» - красивой, трогательной истории о познании, принятии и любви.

Есть ли в мире хтонических ужасов место для любви?Коллектив студии Out of the Blue уверен, что есть. Режиссёр игры Татьяна Дельгадо смело заявляет: «Большинство историй Лавкрафта - это нисхождение в безумие. Наша - восхождение к душевному равновесию».

Но обо всём по порядку.

История Норы Эверхарт начинается в каюте корабля, везущего её в сторону крохотного острова в сердце Тихого океана. 23 октября 1934 года она села на пароход в Сан-Франциско и отправилась во Французскую Полинезию. Сойдя на берег в порту Таити Нора принялась искать следы пропавшей научной экспедиции своего мужа. Она выяснила, что в 74 милях к востоку находится остров с чрезвычайно дурной репутацией...

«Зов моря» - это головоломка от первого лица. Таким играм чрезвычайно сложно добиться осязаемого реализма. Если это не сон, не кома, не абстракция, не виртуальная реальность, не испытательный полигон безумного робота, тогда что? В каких ещё ситуациях человек может проходить через целый ряд причудливых загадок? Прекрасный вариант - руины древней цивилизации. Странные сакральные сооружения, в которые могут войти лишь посвящённые.

Местные пазлы хорошо подошли бы тесту на уровень языкового интеллекта. Они проверяют ассоциативную память и индуктивные способности. Игрок должен распознавать функции разнообразных знаков, выводить правила и закономерности внутри знаковых структур и применять их на практике.

Принципиально важно, что все головоломки интегрированы в окружающий мир.

Во-первых, это объясняет, почему великие тайны древних может без труда разгадать ученик средней школы. Эти самые древние не пытались искусственно усложнить себе жизнь. Лишь наше невежество превращает этот остров в запертую на все замки крепость.

Во-вторых, игровые загадки являются неотъемлемой частью сюжета. Каждая маленькая победа приближает Нору к раскрытию тайн острова, подчиняющегося своей внутренней логике. Проблема же экспедиции Харри Эверхарта заключалась в том, что они пытались остров не понять, а взломать. В самом начале игры мы натыкаемся на головоломку, которую они не смогли решить и поэтому сделали то, о чём мечтали много раз все любители этого жанра - взорвали динамитом.

Экспедиция Эверхарта разыграла на острове классическую сессию настольной игры «Зов Ктулху». События развивались по сценарию считалочки про 10 негритят. Тень безымянного ужаса висела над древними руинами. Неведомое, скользкое зло таилось в воде. Люди разрывались между мучительным желанием обратиться в бегство и лихорадочным любопытством, а всё предприятие окружала атмосфера рокового безрассудства.

Узнаём мы обо всём этом, потому что наши предшественники очень любезно оставили после себя целый музей повествовательных клише. На каждом углу лежат дневники и записки. Люди пишут о своих планах, идеях, начинаниях, об отношении друг к другу, дружбе и конфликтах. Даже в 30-е годы нашлись умельцы, готовые делать фотографии в любых обстоятельствах. Даже самые критичные и трагичные моменты удалось заснять на плёнку. Не забывайте и о аудио-записях, в которых диалоги и споры постоянно прерываются важными событиями. Книги, инструкции, вырезки, брошюры разбросаны повсюду в художественном беспорядке.

В самих клише нет ничего хорошего или плохого. Важно то, как они используются. «Зов моря» работает с ними чрезвычайно старательно. Характеры персонажей качественно раскрываются - самовлюблённый голливудский каскадёр, увлечённый инженер, жадная до сенсаций журналистка. Великое множество уникальных деталей и тщательно проработанных предметов, поистине огромное количество превосходно нарисованных фотографий (нарисованные фотографии - какая прелесть!) погружают нас в богатый и интригующий мир игры.

Собственно, её продаёт уже один только постер. Взволнованная, голубоглазая красавица в практичном, но элегантном платье, с идеальной для 1930-х прической из кудрей и завитков, держит в руках главное оружие любого героя-интеллигента - книгу. Вокруг волнуются джунгли. И вся сцена нарисована от руки, реалистично, но слегка стилизованно, напоминая об обложках довоенных бульварных журналов.

Игра выдерживает этот самый стиль безупречно. Живая тишина и пышная красота джунглей очаровывает и успокаивает. Но только до поры до времени. От грандиозных мегалитических сооружений за версту несёт мрачными, нечеловеческими тайнами. Солнце садится, с моря налетают тучи, и волны бьются о безобразные, черные скалы.

Однако, когда игроки уже морально готовы окунуться в пучину ночных кошмаров и предвкушают грядущую непроглядную хтонь, героиня заявляет, что... не чувствует страха! Наоборот, она ощущает невероятный прилив сил и полна энтузиазма. Может быть, это нездоровый энтузиазм обречённости, спросите вы со сдержанным оптимизмом? Вовсе нет.

«Зов моря» берёт любимые темы Лавкрафта и переворачивает их с ног на голову.

Нора болеет неизвестной науке болезнью. Носит перчатки, чтобы скрыть уродливую пигментацию на руках. И ей снятся пугающие сны, столь же невероятные, сколь и реалистичные. Вот она - идея двойничества, страх разрушения своего Я, отвращение к предавшему тебя телу. Что если что-то чуждое и мерзкое кроется не в каком-то тёмном углу, а внутри самого человека? Подобные вещи у Лавкрафта никогда к добру не приводят. Однако, в данном случае трансформация оказывается средством выживания и лучом надежды.

У Лавкрафта человек сходит с ума, неспособный принять истинную природу мироздания. Когда же изумление Норы сходит на нет, когда отступает страх перед неизвестностью, она начинает изучать чудеса и премудрости космоса. Потому что для пытливых умов раскрытие тайн и загадок есть высшая степень наслаждения бытием.

К тому же Норой движет бесконечная любовь к своему мужу. Так же как он решил рискнуть всем, чтобы отыскать лекарство от её болезни, она готова пойти на всё, чтобы спасти ему жизнь. Это прекрасная романтическая история о тихой, спокойной и непоколебимой любви двух зрелых людей - опытных супругов, которые обращаются друг к другу «my dear old pal» и не представляют жизни без своего лучшего друга.

«Все мои истории основаны на фундаментальной предпосылке о том, что простые человеческие законы, интересы и эмоции не имеют никакого смысла или значимости в безбрежной бездне космоса. Для меня примитивность человека, убогость его страстей, условностей и норм, поданных как естественные для других миров или других вселенных, выглядит не более чем ребячество», - писал Лавкрафт.

Интересно, как бы он оценил подобную «профанацию» его идей. Столкновение с неведомым возбуждает жгучий интерес, а смертельная опасность в основном исходит от самого человека, ослеплённого страхом и глупостью.

«Зов моря» - это оптимистичный, сентиментальный, антропоцентрический взгляд на Лавкрафта. И когда игра говорит «Так давайте окунемся вглубь черной бездны и там обретем вечную жизнь, окруженные всевозможными чудесами и славой. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!», она делает это искренне и от души.

Больше слов!

现实生活里，各色爱情故事不会止于结婚典礼，葬礼才是这些故事最终的结局

“您先生有您这样的夫人真幸运"
“我们都很幸运”
不打算打开变神结局，我不要全成就了，就让夫妻俩好好地生活吧(╥╯^╰╥)

주인공 노라가 남편 해리를 찾기 위해 섬으로 모험을 떠나는 미스테리 퍼즐 어드벤쳐 게임 사랑 이야기! 더 룸 시리즈를 즐기셨다면 이 게임을 추천드려요. 몽환적인 그래픽과 한글화도 되어있으며 연출도 괜찮아서 후반까지 재밌게 놀았습니다. 게임 앤딩은 두가지인데 저장을 하고 마지막 선택을 하시면 바로 다른 앤딩도 볼 수 있어 편하고 좋았어요. 조금 아쉬웠던 부분은 필요한 단서가 노트의 기록되는데 단서를 제대로 다 모으면 문제 없이 퍼즐을 풀수 있지만 노트의 빈 공간들을 꼭 채워야만 퍼즐을 풀수있고 스토리를 진행할수 있어요.

I miss you, my dear old pal<3
[선물해주신 문센님 감사드립니다!]

En cuanto nos adentramos en la isla comenzaremos una aventura narrativa de exploración dónde la resolución de cada acertijo será fundamental para conocer aún más toda la historia. Puede que en ocasiones nos haga dudar de cómo ha surgido todo o que hacemos ahí en realidad, pero tienes que tener en cuenta que todo lo que te rodea es importante, por lo que no olvides prestar atención a tu alrededor y observar cada detalle. A lo largo de la isla descubriremos diversos campamentos ♥♥♥ cartas, imágenes, relatos, incluso una radio, que nos permitirá conocer a cada uno de los miembros de la tripulación, además de los sucesos que ocurrieron meses atrás. Estará compuesto por una narración asombrosa de Norah, ♥♥♥ diálogos en los que nunca nos revelará nada ni tampoco nos sentiremos abrumados ♥♥♥ mucha información.

Al igual que es importante observar todo lo que nos rodea para conocer la historia, inspeccionar e interactuar ♥♥♥ todo para completar los acertijos será fundamental. Norah llevará consigo un diario, que además de ir completando cada relato de la historia también tendrá un apartado de pistas dónde dibujará pequeños símbolos para facilitarnos la progresión de cada puzle. La dificultad es uno de los motivos por los que el juego se te puede hacer un poco cuesta arriba y no comprender que es lo que hay que hacer realmente para avanzar. Puede que encontrar todas las pistas conduzca a la respuesta, pero cuando todo gira en un entorno complicado y ♥♥♥ detalles que no terminas de entender, la dificultad sin duda aumenta sin esperarlo.

Sin lugar a dudas su estilo visual es verdaderamente impresionante ♥♥♥ colores muy vibrantes. Consideramos que si su universo no hubiese estado plasmado ♥♥♥ tanto detalle, su narrativa no hubiese destacado de la misma manera. Construye una isla que al avanzar por ella en primera persona tiene una inmersión impresionante, ya que entendieron a la perfección todo lo que querían transmitir. Desde paisajes paradisíacos, a grandes catástrofes, a un universo submarino en el que te sumerges y quedarás plasmado ♥♥♥ todo su entorno. Es cierto que el diseño de cada nivel te ayuda a querer explorarlo aún más, pese a que la relación entre ellos a veces carece de enlace y puede confundirnos ♥♥♥ la orientación y ♥♥♥ la historia. Si en alguna ocasión te ves perdido o atascado en algún puzle, quédate parado y disfruta de cada paisaje que te presentan.

Call of the Sea es una delicia de videojuego independiente. Han sabido escoger cada herramienta para crear una aventura de exploración, misterio y ♥♥♥ una variedad de puzle que sin duda te deja enganchado desde que te adentras en esta historia de amor y suspense. Tanto la narración, como los entornos y su sonido ambiente es muy inmersivo, y finalmente conseguirás hacerte compañero de Norah en este entrañable viaje a una isla desconocida. Es cierto que la falta de explicación de ciertos puzles te hará estar confuso, al igual que el tránsito de un nivel a otro, pero estos pequeños detalles no modificarán el poder vivir una gran experiencia en este relato sobrenatural. Cada detalle está bien cuidado y cuando tengas oportunidad disfruta del universo submarino que en ocasiones podrás viajar. Tanto si eres amante como si no de este género no dudes en darle una oportunidad.

Nota Final: 8,5/10

I immediately thought of Peter Jackson's King Kong movie when I saw the trailer. I always wanted a chance to explore "Skull Island", to venture deep into the island, uncovering a horrifying secret that had been dormant for aeons. Call of the Sea managed to deliver just that, but instead of a 30-meter tall gorilla, a more ominous presence towers over this island.

What is unconditional love, and how far will someone go for their old friend? These themes reside at the heart of Call of the Sea. Aside from the remarkably fleshed-out relationship of Harry and Nora, there is also a decent Indiana Jones-like mystery. I'll refrain from talking about it, lest I reveal potentially classified information. Overall, it's a solid mystery/love story with good character development and pacing, all wrapped up in a satisfying ending.

With that said, there is one issue - predictability. Around the halfway point, you'll have a solid idea of what's in store for you. However, since the execution was fine, I didn't mind as much, but you may be less forgiving.

You only have one mission - find Harry. There are no objective markers, no quest logs, no minimaps. As soon as you dock on the island, you're on your own. There are, of course, closed off paths, but there isn't anything pointing you in a particular direction. While yes, puzzles unlock the way forward, I spent the bulk of my playtime exploring this beautifully crafted island. Because of this, I look at Call of the Sea as an adventure game first and a puzzle game second.

And the puzzles are the main reason for my saying "adventure game first, puzzle game second". Call of the Sea only has pattern-based puzzles, so exploration always takes precedence over puzzle-solving, as you can't progress if you dont explore and find the solution (technically, you can - brute force). These patterns are usually plastered somewhere in the open or hidden in one of the thousand crumpled notes. While the puzzles vary in design, which I appreciate, relying on this single concept can make puzzles feel tedious at times. I would have loved if they mixed in some logic-based puzzles as well, throwing you out of the already established loop (explore -> find pattern -> profit).

Each time you examine something, Nora writes it down in her journal. It may be a part of a puzzle solution or just extra information expanding the side character and the state of Harry's crew as they traversed the island. Whatever it is, you need not worry if you forget it, as Nora has your back.

The journal is a nifty tool that lets you know if more exploring is needed or not. It makes sure you aren't stuck trying to do a puzzle with a partial solution. But, some may also consider this hand-holding a negative. 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : Sv. Prolivije

I also had only one truly negative experience during my entire playtime, and it was solving a single puzzle that disregarded a previously established rule. Let me explain. The puzzles always show you visual changes, so you know how you affect them when interacting with them. Simple, right? But then, for whatever reason, this particular puzzle throws this out the window. It made solving it more tedious and "challenging". If more puzzles followed the same principle, there would be no problem. But, this is the only puzzle in the entire game that does this. It's not even at the end of the game, more like at its midpoint.

But did I enjoy my stay at the Key Island?

Yes. Yes I did. I attribute this to the game focusing more on exploration. So if you are anything like me and always dreamed of exploring your very own Skull Island, Call of the Sea may potentially satisfy thy needs.

Even tho the game uses Unreal Engine, the graphic style is stark, going for a more cartoonish aesthetic but still keeping it realistic. I especially loved how each level has a distinct colour pallet, making the locations pop. From the giant wrecked whaling ship to the homes and belongings of the island natives, almost every inch of the game oozed immense attention to detail. And I say almost because there was one disappointing area; A couple of rooms, stone pillars, arches here and there, rather lacklustre when compared to the other levels.

Each level has a unique design, is extremely detailed and full of objects to examine, making exploring a joy. 

Création de la communauté pour Call of the Sea

Par : Sv. Prolivije

The two leads, voicing Harry and Nora, complement each other well and offer a convincing portrayal of two people who will go to any length for one another. The soundtrack is also sublime. It manages to capture that "mysterious uncharted island" feel, even delivering that grandiose score as you witness something majestic.

Clever puzzles, beautiful graphics and a sublime soundtrack create a canvas painted on by an engaging story about unconditional love and sacrifice. The end result - Call of the Sea.

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I'd only recommend this game if you enjoy spatial/mechanical puzzles, because that's the only kind you'll find here - no logical deductions, no solving of mysteries, just moving/rotating elements of the world to align with patterns and inscriptions. The landscape is very pretty and the story is genuinely intriguing, but I found most of the puzzles tedious. The constant expository comments also took me out of the experience somewhat (at one point Norah actually says 'exposition' instead of 'expedition' - Freudian slip?). The gameplay is a bit clunky (long walking distances, awkward ladder climbing, cursor blending into surroundings, lack of clarity in what you're meant to achieve). If you're super into Lovecraft and rotating objects in your mind, go for it, otherwise I'm not convinced this game's strengths are enough to compete with its weaknesses.

I picked up this game because I signed up for a female-led mystery adventure game with some puzzles. What I did not expect is that by the end I would be ugly-crying at the culmination of a tragic love story that left me more destroyed than the opening of the film "Up." Absolutely give this a play, the game is respectful of your time and the puzzles aren't punishing (you're not going to accidentally lock yourself out of progressing, and the chapter selection is generous in letting your collected notes persist so you can go back to hunt achievements). I don't want to give away too much, but by the time you start recognizing references, it's already turning the tropes on their head. Strongly recommend, wish I could re-experience playing it through the first time again, so I'll settle for evangelizing others to play it!

This is by not what I would call a bad game, but I would not recommend it. It has some very good elements, but the good in the game is undercut by parts it got wrong, both in aspects of puzzle and in adventure.

The puzzles themselves are pretty good. Varying in complexity and type, and they all had logical solutions that I never had to guess at. But the experience of figuring out the puzzles was undone both by the protagonist pointing out that something was a clue whenever I saw one and, to a greater extent, the notebook automatically connecting clues for me. The idea of a notebook that can store clues in-game is great, but there was a puzzle mid-way through the game that involved combining symbols, and just by reading the papers in the surrounding campsite, the notebook filled in all the intermediate steps of the puzzle for me, leaving me to just enter the final combination. I was very disappointed I didn't have the opportunity to figure it out for myself. The best puzzle experience I had in the game was at the very beginning where the character mentioned that a series of totems looked like they told a story. Nothing else was mentioned, and I enjoyed taking the time to consider what kind of story the pictograms were telling. (The ship level was enjoyable too, for a similar reason.)

In terms of adventure, the game features fantastic environments and a decent story. But every time I entered a new area, before I had the chance to take it in, the protagonist would remark on how awestruck she was, and it broke me out of the moment. I didn't have time to experience awe for myself, I was just observing someone else who was. Among all the environments of this game, the only time I felt a sense of intrigue and discovery was over a strange feature of architecture in the latter game. And it had the power to illicit those feelings because the game never pointed it out; I discovered it myself.

The notebook and protagonist were solid ideas, but applied too thickly. Less would have been more. As it is, the game felt less like going on an adventure, and more like someone else going on an adventure and telling me about it.

Call of the Sea is a pleasant surprise and in my opinion a very underrated (or maybe overlooked) game.
From the first sight this game looks like a walking simulator but it's far from it. Yes you need to walk around a lot but it has plenty of puzzles and simply is a first person point&click/puzzle game.

You pack your things and go onto an island and start solving the mystery. The island is vast and beautiful. You explore a new level on each chapter and each level offers vastly different environments and atmosphere. The game gets darker and darker with time. What seems just an adventure on a beautiful island turns out into messed up situation pretty quickly.

Gameplay is very straightforward but fun. You inspect objects, structures and read letters, lots of letters and messages which either tell a story or serve as clues for the puzzles. To solve the puzzles you first collect the clues and when you have enough you can start figuring out the puzzle solutions.
Some puzzles are pretty easy but a lot fo them are really challenging and fun. You need to think a lot, pay attention to every little detail out there and take time to think how to solve everything.

While puzzles are designed well, majority of them have the same idea behind them. That doesn't mean that if you solve one you will easily solve all of them. Puzzles are very similar but with different solutions which you still need to figure out each time.
I personally would prefer more variety in puzzles. Now it mostly comes to getting the symbols right.
There's a lot of exploration which rewards you with lore and you learn what is actually happening. The game also has two endings so don't forget to save towards the end of the game.

For achievement hunters it's an easy but a bit annoying 100%. Fortunately the game has chapter select which makes it easier but due to slow walking speed, wondering around looking for collectibles might be painful.

Graphically the game looks fantastic and is very pleasant to the eye. You don't have any character models – all of them appear only in photos or drawings but surroundings look perfect. I have zero complaints. Every area, every corner of the game looks great and has lots of details.

Performance is great and there's native ultrawide support. Played on 5800x, rtx3080, 32GB @3440x1440. Game ran smooth as silk from start to finish.

Sound design is good starting with music which fits the narrative very well and ending with voice acting which also is well done.

Overall a good adventure game with captivating story, beautiful locations and challenging puzzles. If you're a fan of puzzle game then go add it to your cart or wishlist at least.

Pros

• Looks beautiful
  
• Good story
  
• Level variety
  
• Good puzzles
  
• Good sound design
  
• Native ultrawide support

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• Mostly same type of puzzles
  
• Walking/running speed is a bit too slow

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《Call of the Sea》是一款克苏鲁神话题材的上佳解谜游戏。结合整个游戏的方方面面来看，故事性，音乐，画面，语音都不错。不同于传统的密室解谜，在本作中，解谜的过程几乎都是在开放的空间中进行，玩家经常需要猜想下一步应该做什么，依靠自己的直觉与思维才能找到线索走到下一步。也正因为游戏的全程几乎都是在开放环境中进行，才更让人有身临其境的冒险感。


游戏的场景做得非常好，美丽的小岛，物品的细节，不同环境的光线，乃至森林大海，有时会让人叹为观止。墙上的壁画和造字也很有意思。多数的画面鲜艳明亮，氛围感制造的非常恰当，光线和音效再加上第一人称视角，表现得更像是一款探索冒险游戏，没有压迫感。

克苏鲁神话常常会带给人未知的恐怖，这款游戏也有一些值得深思的恐惧内涵。

游戏的故事讲述的是女主角去小岛找寻自己失踪的老公下落，剧情方面着重描述了女主角与丈夫之间的感情，随着女主角追寻丈夫的脚步，让玩家感受到他们彼此的情感。

每个关卡都有独特的设计，细节极其丰富，并且充满了解谜的物品，使探索成为一种乐趣。 游戏中与每件物品的互动都有语音解析，旋转物品还有部份照片的后面是有文字的。女主角走到部分场景还有语音独白，方便玩家知道女主角的想法或填充故事内容。整体代入感的塑造非常好，女主角的丰富感情也通过语音表达出了出来。游戏的第六章最后那一段无法奔跑，慢慢的走，然后揭开真相，那段剧情和语音都是整个游戏的高潮所在。

游戏的最后竟然存在两个结局，根据不同的选择会导致不同的结局走向，剧情也有点小不同，都值得一看。最后的职员表名单，女主角的歌声真好听。

在不看攻略的第一轮通关，无论怎样细致应该都会有一些漏掉的地方。通关后就可以选择单个章节重新再玩，己收集的日记和线索并不会消失，可以很方便的去收集全成就，探索新内容。

游戏为我们阐述了爱人之间什么是牺牲与无私奉献的爱，故事情节引人入胜。巧妙的谜题，精美的画面与上佳的配乐营造出了一幅美丽的小岛画卷。配音会激发你的情感与同理心。本作值得你冒险。

Цікава гра. Дуже сподобались головоломки. Цікава історія. Гарні краєвиди, що ще не хватає для гарного часо проводження. Купуй, не пожалієш.

Bulmacalar biraz fazla muğlak ama şimdiye dek oynadığım en iyi Lovecraft oyunu. (Lovecraft'in baş kahramanı kadın olan hiçbir öyküsü yoktur, bu açıdan daha bir manidar.) Seslendirmeler nefis, ses kurgusu müthiş, göndermeler leziz. Orijinal King Kong filmini sevenlere de şiddetle öneriyorum. (Oyunda dev goril yok, yanlış anlaşılmasın.) Ayrıca teknik bakımdan jilet gibi. İlk oyununu yapan bir stüdyodan çıkmış demezsin, o kadar iyi. Sanat yönetiminde titizlik her şeydir, bu oyun da kanıtı.

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Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure with excellent presentation and interesting combination of story and puzzles to keep the player engaged for the entire journey. In short, this game is absolutely amazing, and if you want to stop reading there, just know that it's a worthwhile adventure.

Story: Play from a first-person perspective of Norah Everhart as she pursues this adventure in search of her husband, and discovers the truth behind her life-long illness in the process. With a Lovecraft-inspired theme filled with mystery and unknown, Norah comes closer to the truth every step along the way. Beyond the theme, the style of introspection, wonder, followed by self-reflexive acknowledgement and acceptance help to hold the game together really well.

Character Development: It's lovely to see a game with such fleshed out characters. Not just our protagonist Norah but also her husband Harry, who we mostly get to know from her self-musings and observations during her journey, and some letters that he has left for her. She's an intelligent, determined, caring, and loving individual with whom the player truly bonds. He just wants to help cure her illness.

Visuals: Undoubtedly you have already seen some of the amazing mixture of artwork and colors arranged for this game by the time you are coming to read the reviews. Everything looks absolutely amazing and fits into the game's other aspects superbly. I haven't posted this many screenshots in such a short amount of time in a long time.

Puzzles: The puzzles are moderate difficulty in design, with clues to their solutions to be found through exploration. The game does make the puzzles a lot easier by noting in a journal almost everything needed to solve the puzzles. The player can open the journal mid-puzzle to look at the important notes if necessary to progress. There are not a ton of puzzles to this game, only a couple of major ones barring the path from one chapter to the next, but they are well-designed and fun to solve.

Audio: The sound effects really puts the player in Norah's shoes, everywhere she goes and everything she does, the sound effects help to bring the atmosphere alive. The music evokes wonder, discovery, amazement, but also frustration, loss and sadness at the appropriate times in subtle but effective places. The excellently voice-acted sound bytes as Norah explores the island also convey a lot of emotion to help provoke the player's empathy.

Internal Glue: There is enough mystery to keep the player on his/her toes. There is fascinating story progression to keep the player engaged. Some of the missable achievements help to encourage complete exploration and examination, which aids the player in finding clues to solve some of the seemingly wild puzzles. And it's that same exploration that keeps the player entranced by the visuals and the details. Everything fits together so well to help with the immersive gameplay and for the player to bond with Norah and through her, Harry. Alone she may be on her journey, Norah is always connected to the player, the environment, and the other not-physically-present characters within the game.

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-So I definitely ran into some sections where immersion breaks a bit, such as a series of objects that are meant to be examined in sequence, but I go on and explore a bit, the come back to look at the items in reverse order. Norah's audible reactions to examining these objects break the intended order. Most of the time it's minor, occasionally she's more reactive and so the emotions do not fit.

-Occasional bugs that are small and usually insignificant. Nothing game breaking.

1. The game works with KB+M or Controller. I had no issues with the controller.

2. I did have to turn off motion blur and maximize the FOV at 100 degrees. You might want to adjust to your liking.

3. $19.99 base price is pretty reasonable given the quality of the game. There are not a ton of puzzles, but they are well designed. If you are super quick on the puzzles, the game may only take 7-8 hours. But it's one of those games that's worth your extra time and attention to explore.

Call of the Sea can be considered a genre-defining work and an example for others to follow. I thoroughly enjoyed the adventure and felt attached to Norah that I wished the game to go on for longer.

Score: 9/10

I received the product for free. I did not receive any compensation to write this review. The opinions represented here are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way.

Was kann man über dieses Spiel sagen? Als erstes Mal und in einem Satz: Ich finde es ist der absolute Hammer! :D
1930er Jahre: Man spielt Nora, die es auf der Suche nach ihrem Mann Harry und dessen Expedition auf eine geheimnisvolle Insel im Pazifik verschlägt. Nora ist von einer seltsamen Krankheit befallen und wird von unheilvollen Träumen geplagt. Ihr Mann Harry hatte eine Expedition ins Leben gerufen um für seine Frau ein Heilmittel zu suchen. Schon bald stößt man auf erste Anzeichen über den Verbleib Harrys.
Was dann folgt ist eine wunderschöne, nein atemberaubende Insel mit vielen abwechslungsreichen Biomen. Eines beeindruckender als das Vorangegangene. Also ich finde die Grafik ist schon mal allererste Sahne weil äußerst stilvoll, ebenso der Spielesoundtrack und die übrige Soundkulisse. Die Atmosphäre ist zum schneiden dicht, zieht einen sofort in ihren Bann.
Den Großteil des Spiels erkundet man gemütlich die verschiedenen Gebiete, löst stellenweise knackige Rätsel, sucht nach Hinweisen zu deren Lösung und Tagebucheinträgen. Kämpfe oder Fluchtpassagen gibt es nicht und das ist gut so. Denn so kann man die Atmosphäre in aller Ruhe auf sich einströmen lassen. Auch ist es absolut kein Horrorspiel, eher Puzzle-Abenteuer/Mystery.
Was ich vielleicht noch dazusagen sollte, ich hab das Spiel noch nicht durch, bin ca bei 60% den Errungenschaften nach. (Edit: Bin mittlerweile durch. Dazu mehr im Endfazit) Aber was ich bis dahin erleben durfte, lässt mich aus dem Staunen nicht mehr herauskommen. Ich will unbedingt wissen wie es weitergeht. Das hat den Grund, daß ich ein großer Cthulhu- und Lovecraft-Fan bin. Und da hatte mich das Spiel sofort. An allen Ecken und Enden findet man Hinweise und Anspielungen zu den Geschichten, Kreaturen und Charakteren aus der Feder H.P. Lovecrafts. Ich freue mich immer wenn ich so eine tolle Hommage entdecke. Allerdings ist es schon sehr zu empfehlen, Lovecrafts Erzählungen zu kennen. Sonst entgeht einem viel Atmosphäre und vor allem die Anspielungen.
Also für mich ist dieses Spiel ein wahr gewordener Spiele-Traum. Gerade weil ich Lovecraft-Fan (und auch sofort Fan dieses Spiels) bin, der grandiosen Optik und der Atmosphäre wegen. Die Geschichte wollte ich schon länger so einmal in einem Spiel erleben. Gerade weil im späteren Spielverlauf noch die ein oder andere Spielmechanik hinzukommt und etwas mit Nora passiert. Aber ich will nicht spoilern.
Ich ziehe meinen Hut vor dem Entwicklerteam. Bitte macht noch (mindestens) einen Nachfolger, ich will unbedingt mehr davon! :D Für mich ein grandioses Spieleerlebnis, daß ich nicht mehr missen möchte. Und für alle die nur im Entferntesten auf Lovecrafts Geschichten, stilvolle Optik und gepflegtes Rätseln stehen, eine klare Kaufempfehlung. Das Spiel ist jeden Cent wert. :D

Endfazit: Nach zwei Tagen habe ich Call of the Sea durchgespielt. Was ich noch sagen möchte: Die Geschichte ist gut, sehr gefühlvoll, emotional. Nora wächst einem ans Herz. Im Laufe der Kapitel hat sie viel zu erzählen. Bis zum Schluß, an dem eine Entscheidung auf den Spieler wartet. Für mich gab es nur einen richtigen Weg. Aber das bleibt jedem Spieler selbst überlassen.
Was ich noch anmerken möchte: Für mich ist das Spiel ein kleines Kunstwerk. Eine kleine aber intensive Reise die von Rätseln und atemberaubender Kulisse geprägt ist. Die Spieldauer ist nicht besonders hoch. Knapp 10 Stunden habe ich ca gebraucht um einen von 2 Endscreens zu sehen. Wer die Rätsel kennt ist viel schneller durch. Ich habe mir aber Zeit gelassen um alles zu sehen. Ich werde zu einem anderen Zeitpunkt noch einmal weiter oder von neuem spielen für die übrigen Errungenschaften. Es ist mir bei weitem nicht gelungen alle zu erreichen.
Zwei Dinge habe ich noch anzumerken die mir nicht so gefallen haben. Einmal, das Spiel ist sehr linear. Man kann kaum vom Hauptweg abweichen und es gibt nur wenige Pfade die zu Verstecken führen. Der Hauptkritikpunkt aber sind die Rätsel. Beginnen diese noch recht einfach, zieht der Schwierigkeit ab Kapitel 3 doch merklich an. Bzw einiges artet regelrecht in Arbeit aus, man muss Geduld aufwenden, sich höchst konzentrieren. Man weiß zwar sofort, was das Spiel von einem will, aber manche der Rätsel sind in meinen Augen etwas..."unglücklich auszuführen". Und ich habe viele Adventures und Rätselspiele gespielt, aber an einigen Passagen musste ich einen Guide konsultieren. Selbst danach konnte ich an einer Stelle im Spiel die erwünschte Lösung immer noch nicht nachvollziehen. Schade. :/
Ansonsten bleibe ich bei meiner Meinung. Das Spiel ist ein kleines Kunstwerk geworden, voller Emotionen, einer faszinierenden Insel...mal farbenfroh mal düster. Das Artwork (visuell und akustisch) des Spiels gehört für mich zum Besten welches ich je gesehen habe. Top Atmosphäre, sehr "Lovecraftian" (gerade im Bezug zu Wesenheiten die ich sehr schätze. Ohne zu viel zu verraten, musste ich im Spiel mehrfach an "Der Schatten über Innsmouth" und "Der Ruf des Cthulhu" denken. Und das meine ich absolut im Positiven. :)
Gut, genug geschrieben. Ich hoffe sehr, meine Rezension konnte euch eine Kaufentscheidung erleichtern. Ich liebe dieses Spiel <3 auch wenn mich einige Rätsel gestresst haben.

"Phnglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ;)

My Playtime: 6.2h (100% achievement, finished the game)
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (22 achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): No.

Call of the Sea follows the story of Norah Everheart, a woman that is trying to find her husband that is searching for a cure for her strange disease. You'll have to explore the beautifully-made landscapes and solve simple puzzles to get closer to the truth.

Pros:
- Beautiful looking landscapes and some scenes where you just need to sit and enjoy the scenery
- Backtracking to gather what you miss can be easily done through chapter select

♥♥♥♥:
- Some texts are hard to see, especially the notebook that has no option to show the text in another font
- Slow walking and running speed

Specs
Intel Core i5-9300H 2.40GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Yes.
If you like games with beautiful scenery and don't mind solving some puzzles, buy this game. Those who don't like walking simulators also can try this game since puzzles aren't spread far from each other and areas aren't that vast.

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There is only one word that is fitting to describe the visuals: beautiful. I mean, I didn't even play in the highest setting - I switched to medium after I see how beautiful the game looks at the first scene and I was afraid that my laptop won't handle it for a long session. The sea looks creepy with the dim lighting, and although I had to adjust to its brighter look in the medium setting, they still look great in some scenes. I even unconsciously think that it would be great if I could experience it in VR.

I couldn't help but stop and stare at how well done the scenery looks in some of the areas. The night sky is one example. The in-game sky might look brighter and has more stars in it, but as someone who like to stare at the night sky when I was little, I missed being able to see stars in the sky, and the game just brings me back to that time. There are even some areas where you can just sit and watch the beautiful-looking scenes while the game moves you to the next destination. I like how these are all designed, and if you like to take a screenshot, I believe that you'll spend your time doing that most of the time.

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The story blends itself between finding the main character's husband and the mystery that surrounds the area. It blends perfectly since you need to find the trails that were left by your husband, which was trying to explore the area with his team. Since you only find clues in the form of letters and images, it's easy to digest the whole thing while focusing on what matters the most: the exploration.

Call of the Sea is one of the games that didn't feel like telling much but is able to tell a lot at the same time. Part of it might be because I unconsciously process what was being spoken by the main character as I scoured the area, but finding the clues, hearing the main character's remarks, and looking at the scenery is enough to understand the worldbuilding to some extent. It feels as if you are experiencing what the main character does yourself.

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Gameplay
As I said before, the gameplay basically focuses on exploration. You need to scour the area and find some interactable objects that might hold some clues. However, although the game marks the interactable objects, it can be hard to see since the mark is just a tiny dot that will expand if you focus on it. Luckily, you can guess which are the interactable objects to some extent, making it easier to find the clues.

The areas might not be vast, but I still wish for the character to have a faster walking speed. The running speed was still slow, and even if it doesn't, it can be tiring to press the sprint button every time I walk. Some areas might not be spread far from each other, although there are times when I wish that I can walk faster.

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I like how the game tracks clues and logs, though. The logs were written in such a way as to let you know what can't be translated by what you see through text, and the clues help to solve some of the puzzles. You just need to be more aware of your surroundings to find everything, and although some puzzles take a bit of thinking, they are pretty simple once you know what to do.

Length and Difficulty
I finished the game in 6.2h. There are times when I didn't know where I was supposed to go, but it was more because I missed some interactable objects on my way. Puzzles will be blocking your progress most of the time, and although I also had trouble with one, I still enjoyed how unique it was from each other. Each puzzle uses a different mechanic to solve, and since it has no instructions, you need to figure out how to solve them based on some clues that are drawn in your notes.

Achievement hunters won't need to worry about completing the game. Each chapter is short and the chapter selection shows what you have missed in that chapter. If that's not enough, there are a lot of guides that you can refer to.

Issues
It can be hard to read the handwriting in the journal and there is no "Read" option to show the text in a different display.

As someone who hates walking simulators, Call of the Sea didn't bore me at all. I liked how it paced itself between exploring and puzzle solving, and exploring is still made worthwhile since you need to find clues. Moreover, the main character's remarks on the exploration always help to some extent, especially with how good the voiceover is - the voice was clear and soothing to the ear. I could recommend it to anyone who likes to enjoy the scenery in a game and doesn't mind doing some puzzles in between.

Embark on a classic point'n'click adventure game where the environment is not shown in 2D, but in beautiful 3D. We play Norah, a young woman in the 1930s who suffers from an unknown disease. Dark spots on her hands are the reason why she only moves out of the house wearing gloves. And then there are the terrible, constantly recurring nightmares! After no doctor could help her, her husband started looking for a cure. But she hasn't heard from him for a good year now. His trail leads her to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, which is avoided like the plague by the superstitious locals. So she hires a boat and sets off for the island. Once there, she realises that this is exactly the island she has always dreamed of. Very strange, isn't it?

The paradise-like island is probably not so deserted after all. As soon she lands, she finds the traces of an expedition on the beach, so her missing husband was undoubtedly here. She follows his tracks further and further into the interior of the island. But there is much more waiting for her there. Missing ships, ancient temples as witnesses of a lost civilisation, unknown animals... the Bermuda Triangle is a rest home in comparison. There is much to explore and many things to find, with Norah providing spoken commentary most of the time. So we learn more and more about the island and about her relationship with her missing husband. By the way, important clues and puzzle notes are automatically entered into a diary by Norah - very convenient.

I'm not really a big fan of adventure games in 3D, very often they play rather cluttered and the 3D view is more of a pain than an advantage. Call of the Sea is completely different - here, exploring the island with its countless secrets is really fun. All actions are easy to carry out with a mouse click, so you only sweat because of the puzzles, but not because of the poor controls. By the way, the control works without problems with the mouse as well as with a controller. Apart from the good graphics, the game also is voiced, all sentences and thoughts of our protagonist are spoken by Cissey Jones, who already impressed me in Firewatch. The game also offers the possibility to expand the field of view to 100 degrees, which is also the temperature my GPU had after playing. Or maybe not, but don't try to play this on a laptop. Also very important for me is the option to switch off the camera shaking while walking (head bobbing), because otherwise I quickly get sick, as for example in the actually quite well-made adventure game Draugen.

Conclusion:
If you are looking for a graphically excellent adventure game in 3D, with an exciting story in six long chapters, combined with entertaining puzzles often incorporating polynesian symbology, Call of the Sea is absolutely right for you

[...] Eu amo jogos com história e mistério, se for de terror eu me apaixono mais ainda, sou um grande fã de Silent Hill, Resident Evil, jogos que unem uma ação com mistérios e puzzles, mas calma jovens gafanhotos, Call Of The Sea não é de terror, pode jogar com família toda, e é bom que todo mundo ajuda a resolver os quebra-cabeças que ficam muito difíceis, o jogo é aventura + mistérios onde você precisa soluciona-los para progredir na história, uma viagem maravilhosa principalmente pra quem gosta de livros como mencionei anteriormente, quando você consegue resolver os quebra-cabeças, as peças começam a se encaixar, eu me apaixonei pelo jogo, cada canto que você explora da ilha pode ter uma pista de onde está seu marido, ou que ele já passou por ali, e você vai se enfiando na história e mais puzzle, mais fragmentos da história, cada pedacinho do mapa pode ter algo importante ou apenas uma história sobre pra que servia aquilo, por exemplo uma flauta, um barquinho entalhado, ferramenta de entalhes, ou pode ter uma gravação do que aconteceu em uma fita, em um documento, por isso minha dica pra vocês é, preste atenção nos diálogos, Norah te ajuda a entender para qual caminho você deve seguir, bom mas da história eu acho que já dei um bommm ponto de partida, vamos aos pontos técnicos.

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What an absolutely wonderful game! Call of the Sea is an exploratory adventure with a heartwarming love story. You play Norah - a woman with a mysterious illness whose husband has gone missing while looking for a cure. She travels to a South Sea island and begins to look for him, following the clues he has left behind. Puzzles consist primarily of restoring power to modern equipment and activating ancient artifacts. You have a journal that is updated with a log of your travels and all puzzle clues that you encounter.

For me, this game was a perfect mix of adventure and story, without endless backtracking or long dialog trees. The story is told through Norah's musings as well as in the letters, photos, and notes she finds along the way. For the most part, the game is a linear path through 6 chapters with the ability to save at any point. Your time is split between traversing a diverse landscape, experiencing dream like sequences, and swimming in a perfectly crafted underwater world.

The artwork is beautiful and the music is uplifting. Some of the cut scenes feel like a major motion picture... big landscapes with swelling music that give you true 'wow' moments. The voice acting is professionally done and you can't help but like Norah and share her wonder as the mysteries of the island unfold. With few exceptions, the puzzles are not difficult and clues abound if you are paying attention. There are achievements for finding all of the clues and story snippets so it pays to take time and look at every object that can be interacted with.

I think this is one of the better games I've played this year in terms of art, music, story, and puzzles. I highly recommend it to any gamer who doesn't need combat to feel good about an adventure!

Call of the Sea - в этой игре мы будем играть за женщину болеющую необычной болезнью, которая отправляется на поиски своего ̶с̶е̶р̶д̶е̶ч̶н̶о̶г̶о̶ ̶д̶р̶у̶г̶а̶ мужа, который отправился искать лекарство от ее недуга. Нас высадят на острове посреди океана где нам предстоит найти ответы на свои вопросы.

Игра сводится к решению небольших головоломок, которые дают подсказку к решению главной головоломки уровня. Очень радует дневник главной героини куда она записывает все найденные подсказки и благодаря которому можно в любой момент свериться с ним и понять, что необходимо сделать.

И хоть игра по сути является головоломкой, здесь присутствует сюжет - и он очень хорош. По мере прохождения игры открываются новые факты, почему главная героиня болеет и почему её тянет к морю, а в конце всё подытоживается и если по какой то причине потеряли нить сюжета, то всё будет объяснено, что на мой взгляд только плюс = ибо тогда всё повествование выглядит целостным и законченным и не нужно лезть в википедию вспоминая, что было упущено.

Как итог - хорошая игра про головоломки, с приятной графикой и звуком, которую можно проходить не спеша и наслаждаться сюжетом.
P.S. проходя её вспоминался часто фильм Дагон - морское чудовище!

The game feels like it's much longer than it's short run time suggests. I appreciate game design that doesn't pad it's run time with monotony and just gives you its best ideas and keeps the pace of the story up to keep things fresh and engaging.

This game has excellent puzzles that were challenging without being cheap. Excellent game overall!

Вот люблю такие игры, где есть главная героиня.
Полноценный сюжет.
Нора отправляется на поиски мужа, который уехал год назад на остров за лекарством для любимой и пропал.
Не каждая поедет да еще одна. Это говорит о том что она бесстрашная, у нее есть цель и найдет ли она мужа узнаем в конце.

Атмосфера таинственности, загадочности. Невероятная любовь.
Красивые пейзажи острова, Потрясающая флора подводного мира.
Достаточно много головоломок, есть и сложные от которых у меня опухла голова, да приходилось пользоваться подсказкой.
И в конце нас ждут два финала.
Великолепная игра! Рекомендую.

经过差不多2年才补充评价， 即使过了2年我仍然对该游戏的剧情印象深刻，从这一点来看，这无疑是一个好游戏。
游戏剧情引人入胜，充满悬念的剧情让人时而紧张害怕。优美的绘画制作配合交响乐，有时候又让人流连忘返，惊叹游戏风景之美丽。
玩家从剧情中了解到何为克苏鲁，与很多克苏鲁题材的电影以及游戏不一样，游戏更多地表现出克苏鲁那种强大以及人类的渺小，好比我们知道死亡，但是却无法改变只能无奈接受这一事实。一种精神压迫，无形却威力十足，人类过于渺小陷入对未知的恐惧。
创作者以爱情贯穿全游戏，剧情讲述了女主角去南太平洋小岛寻找失踪的丈夫而踏上为爱之旅，身为考古学家的丈夫为了可以救治得到怪病的妻子（女主角）而在小岛上遭遇一系列危险，生死未卜。玩家操控女主角通过解谜探索小岛，发现了各种骇人事件，丈夫留下的种种物品让女主角回忆起他们美好时光的点滴。随着剧情的推进，两人面临着巨大的死亡威胁。在爱情力量的驱使下，使人变得强大而坚定，女主角可以选择加入克苏鲁世界而升华成神，又可以与丈夫团聚度过最后的时光。

非常唯美的爱情故事，中国梁祝以及英国的罗密欧与茱丽叶这种至死不渝的爱情主题大家耳熟能详，但是到今天这个主题依旧未变，虽然传统但是经典又唯美。游戏最后的抉择让玩家陷入沉思，我们长期以来都在探讨死亡问题，从小就有思考死亡之后是否意识就会消亡，对于那份未知又虚空的恐惧，人们更愿意选择相信有来世。我们常常会思考到时间过的很快，我一下子就从小孩长大成人，就从高中毕业，大学毕业，然后就踏入了社会。身边的同学也开始结婚生子，所以人生的意义究竟是什么，我们作为人应该要做什么？我一直不懂，至今也不懂。所以从我对自己的期盼，我肯定会选择踏入未知世界成为神，得到永生。可是这只不过是一种美好幻想罢了，现实就是后者，和大多数一样，追求爱情，珍惜当下。
剧情满分，美术创作满分，音乐满分

It's a first person puzzle game that gives what is promised: to walk and explore along a beautiful isle while solving puzzles, see pictures and read a lot about the facts related to the expedition organized by Nora's husband. "Romantic-novel" love is another key component in the story, as you'll see. Some people will find this component too idillic and unrealistic, while others "who loves to dream with romantized,perfect marriage relationships" will find this enjoyable.

However, don't expect a horror game (yes, despite it's based on Cthulhu mythos). It isn't one of them, and it's not pretending to be scary. The way that the story is treated makes A. Derleth come to my mind before H. P. Lovecraft.

Not at all Lovecraftian like some reviews would lead you to believe. Unfortunately, I cannot say why without giving mild spoilers (below Pros and ♥♥♥♥).

Pros:
* Good narrative structure, solid story
* Good music, sound effects, narration
* Puzzles are not too hard, not too easy
* Game doesn't overstay its welcome. Doable in about 5 hours I'd say.

♥♥♥♥:
* Not getting a puzzle right the first time can lead to a lot of walking back and forth in some cases. This can turn the game into a real walking simulator.
* One more big ♥♥♥ below the spoilers tag.

-Spoilers-
I just felt this game could be Lovecraftian (a reference between Call of Cthulu and Call of the Sea is easily made), and it does feel that way for the first three chapters (out of six). After that, it becomes a clear and comforting love story, without any feeling of dread, danger, or madness for our protagonist. Building up to chapter three, you feel like things are going sideways, and when the (literal) darkness finally approaches you are truly in Lovecraft's territory. The next chapter, though, immediately ends this charade completely and makes a 180 turn. From that moment on, there is nothing to the game that resembles Lovecraft's work in theme, but only sticks to placing references.

I finished the game and am happy I did. I liked the ending, but am slightly disappointed the game didn't continue the feeling of dread and despair. I would have loved to see it go down a road where you have an open ending that leaves you chilled to the bones (just like any Lovecraft short).

赞同小黑盒上的一段话：20年末群星璀璨下的克式美学遗珠

Probably the most peaceful, relaxing, colorful horror game I've ever played.

Call of the Sea est avant tout une aventure riche en découverte et en puzzles. Il faudra faire preuve d’un sens de l’observation aiguisé et d’une logique à toute épreuve pour pouvoir espérer se passer d’un guide afin de terminer l’aventure

Call of the Sea est un jeu qui a tout compris en matière de jeux de puzzles moderne, il place à notre disposition tous les indices que l’on a récolté au cours de nos explorations et nous aide fortement à les remettre en ordre grâce à sa gestion de la pagination du carnet. Tout ce que l’on a besoin de savoir et tous les indices seront indiqués ensemble.

L’histoire est vraiment prenante avec une narration impeccable et surtout des monologues de Norah qui sonnent juste et pas seulement dédiés à nous faire comprendre qu’il se passe quelque chose d’important comme dans la plupart des jeux. On comprendra de nous même l’implication de ses actions et surtout ce qui est arrivé à la précédente expédition et aux choix qu’à du faire son époux. Brillant, tout simplement.

Call of the Sea possède une sacrée durée de vie sincèrement excellente pour ce genre de jeu, on fera le tour de l’aventure en 7-8h pour peu que l’on ait l’habitude de ce genre de production. Comptez encore 2-3 heures afin de tout débloquer en matière de succès. C’est juste parfait, ni trop long ni trop court. On a pas le temps de s’ennuyer et surtout on a pas l’impression que des passages du jeu ne servent à rien.

Le jeu n’est très clairement pas difficile en matière de résolution d’énigmes. Pour peu que l’on soit observateur et que l’on parvienne à mettre en relation des symboles avec des éléments du jeu, on aura très vite compris ce que le jeu attends de nous non seulement en matière d’énigmes mais aussi pour les objets collectables ici et là. J’oserais même dire que le jeu est un brin trop facile car seuls quelques puzzles m’ont posé des soucis.

Au final, Call of the Sea est vraiment un jeu à part en cette fin d’année 2020. Non seulement il brille dans sa narration grâce à un excellent jeu d’acteur ainsi que par le biais de son histoire simple mais ô combien efficace mais également grâce à au mix puzzles et gestion des environnements. Si le résultat graphique final est sublime, les puzzles ne sont pas en reste ainsi, ils feront réfléchir n’importe quel joueur pendant 7 superbes heures.

This is not a terrible game, but there are some terrible parts about it that really pull away from the good (at least for me).

-Spoiler free review-

CotS is like a first person point and click, almost hidden object game. It's a walking simulator with some puzzles thrown in. The story is a neat Lovecraftian narrative that you don't need to have any previous experience with to appreciate. The puzzles themselves really aren't too difficult overall, but that's because most anything can be brute-forced given enough time. That being said, there are useful clues that help get the real solution faster. Some solutions are very easy, some do take a bit more thought. As of the time of this writing, 5 hours in, I'm currently working on the last chapter. It shouldn't take too long.

But that's where the problems come in. MOST of my 5 hours hasn't been spent solving the puzzles, but simply moving around. The game would really have a very short playtime needed to complete, were it not for the molasses speed. There are semi-missable achievements (secret items, 100% log) that you cannot earn once you get past a certain part of a level, so you have to replay the level. Movement speed is so terribly slow that what should have been a quick re-run (having already solved the puzzles) turns into a terribly frustrating waiting game. In particular, chapter 5. I missed something so went back to play it again, and one of the larger puzzles, which was extremely simple to solve, takes forever to clear because one must walk up and down and back and forth at a very leisurely pace, even when "sprinting" with the shift key.

The slow movement speed wasn't too bad during the first solve, but when trying to replay any chapter, it becomes painfully obvious how slow all movements/activities are.

Overall, I'll give a soft recommendation for a first playthrough; absolutely not if you want to get 100% without using a guide the whole way through (which really kills the fun of a puzzle game).

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"Oh my, it seems my family has a dark and secret history. If only I had more than three brain cells, I might have figured that out years ago!"

I kind of stumbled my way into this game. The screenshots on the store page looked nice and hinted at some puzzles, and the game had some faintly lovecraftian undertones I felt might be hinting at some hidden horror elements. Horror and puzzles? Count me in!

Let's just say right now: this game wasn't quite what I expected.

To get the obvious out of the way here: the game is pretty! From lush jungles and pristine beaches bathed in sunlight to wrecked ships in stormy nights to more, the visual side of the game is very nicely done.

At the time of writing the game suffered from a very nasty bug that caused the main menu music to play on a loop over the top of all other game audio, including the level music, if the options menu was ever visited. It took me a long while to realise this was truly broken (I just thought the music of the game was purposefully weird or lazily done). As such I can't say much on the music of the game, and will just call it passable. On a more technical level, the game feels weirdly heavy to run. My GTX 1080 chugged madly and in some areas I struggled to achieve a steady 60 FPS, with certain items, rooms or effects dipping me down to the low 40's. Considering the stylized and simplified visuals, this feels like a strange thing to be happening, and might be put down to lack of optimization and polish.

What presents a far greater problem than broken music or stuttering framerate, however, is our protagonist. The game recounts the journey of Norah, as she ventures out to find her missing husbands expedition, which went out to try and find a cure for a mysterious disease that ails our protagonist. Norah is, however, one of the most infuriating protagonists I have endured in a long time. While the voice actor is passable, the lines she is made to read during the game ruin both her character, as well as much of the immersion and even gameplay on offer. Norah has a terrible habit of narrating things she has no way of knowing, ruining revelations the player might have figured out themselves, and even revealing key information used to resolve puzzles, before the player has had time to study the puzzle themselves. She also constantly dismisses any idea that there might be grander revelations ahead in the story, and states the flat out obvious so many times I couldn't help but laugh out loud toward the end of the game. In addition, Norah writes notes in her journal constantly, including puzzle hints that outright reveal most puzzle solutions well before the player has had time to even have a crack at solving the puzzle themselves. This feels like an attempt by the developers to ensure that anyone can complete the game, but for a player looking to challenge their brainbox with intricate puzzles that take time to analyze and figure out, this game is definitely NOT for you! (I'd recommend looking into Quern or Obduction if that is the case)

What about the puzzles themselves? Since the game has very little gameplay beyond walking around and solving puzzles in a linear fashion to open up new areas and to move to the next level, the puzzles alone have to carry the games interactive experience. Sadly, the puzzles do not impress here. The tasks the player has to complete range from very simple 'find the barely hidden item' to 'organize symbols in a specific sequence' all the way to the age old copy of Simon Says. And as mentioned before, Norah is always there to tell you exactly which bits of information are important and how they are to be used. The only times I felt the game let me figure things out for myself were cases where I had a set of symbols and a clear order, but the game didn't say if I was to order the symbols in an ascending or descending order, leaving me to try both ways until the solution clicked.

Call of the Sea left me outright confused in the end. From the very opening moments of the adventure, the game lays out its cards plainly in front of the player, and despite the store page making no mention of Lovecraft or the Cthulhu mythos, the very opening cutscene reveals these influeces, while a little later the game goes out of its way to tell us that Norah has not-so-distant relatives in a little place called Innsmouth! The presence of lovecraftian horrors is in no way hidden or secret, but is outright shown to the player early on, and any attempt at a plot twist is watered down by Norah explaining each and every story beat and revelation to death in an omniscient manner, to the point where she is able to tell what people were doing and thinking weeks or months ago, based only on a few written letters or scattered items. Norah also manages to be the most immovable, carefree protagonist ever to set foor on a cursed island that drives people mad, which only serves to further dismiss any intrigue the game might have had. The story lacks any tension or threat, and the game outright points this out several times.

As far as I can tell, Call of the Sea is intended as something of a baby's first adventure game. Something a player more accustomed to casual hidden object games or mobile games might pick up and try out and find suitably easy to gloss over, perhaps providing a stepping stone on the path to more serious adventure games. For anyone looking for a challenge, I can only say: look elsewhere.


Playtime: 4+ hours (Single playthrough)

Ratings (1-10)
Visual: 7
Audio: 4
Story: 5
Gameplay: 6
Overall: 5

Gorgeous graphics and initially captivating story line don't mask the truth that it's more walking simulator than puzzle/exploration game. Each chapter is very constrained and the puzzle peak in difficulty about half way through, and even then will take little more than a few moments of thought for anyone seasoned that has played Myst, Quern, or similar. The second half of the game devolves into basic pattern matching and the final puzzle is easily one of the most straightforward in the entire experience. The message the game gives in it's endings is touching but is not a worthy payoff when so much of the inner details of the whole experience are left completely ignored. It would have been nice to explore Norah's lineage further through the island and mysteries it holds, but instead Call of the Sea is just a walk from one gated area to another looking for shapes or symbols to align correctly to proceed.

Well made game that simply lacks the depth of others in the genre.

I feel bad not recommending this game because I did quite like it, but a lot of the time it had me going through the motions.

Like ... I'd seen these puzzles before, I'd heard these stories before and Call of the Sea was perfectly content trying to be perfectly middle-of-the-road. It's not like it's not an enjoyable experience, it's just so forgettable.

Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: either go for the walking sim, or go for the adventure puzzler, but trying to string together a walking sim with puzzles that are so simple and tepid just doesn't work for me. I mean, there's a Simon Says in there somewhere. How about an original idea for once?

Call of the Sea is a puzzle-driven romance/Lovecraftian horror story game with walking simulator aspects. Overall, this game was really well-paced with a story that lures you in quickly, and you unravel the secrets/mysteries that behold your fate as you progress via exploration. The story was excellent with small details you'll likely appreciate if you have familiarity with some of Lovecraft's work (such as The Shadow Over Innsmouth). The game looks really pretty/interesting and it plays smoothly. The puzzles themselves are quite well-done, IMO; they are pretty middle of the road in terms of difficulty (if not on the easier end), but all follow logical reasoning to be solved and thus feel very 'fair' in completing them. The game doesn't overstay its welcome, coming in at about 5.5 hours of playtime with an additional ~2 hours for achievement clean-up. Overall, this is a great pick for fans of narrative-driven puzzle games, particularly if you are looking for a game with a romance/horror flavor to it.

Seems like a fascinating game. I love Historical Fiction and story based games. However I can't play this game for more than 30 mins at a time without having horrible motion sickness. I wish there was a 3rd person option, however if you are a person who isnt bothered by motion sickness, im sure you will love this game. It has amazing graphics, stunning music, and a truly intriguing story.

Zaskakująco przyjemna gierka. Kupiłem w sumie w ciemno, skuszony opisem i trailerem, ale nie żałuję ani wydanych pieniędzy, ani poświęconego czasu. Bawiłem się dobrze i zapewniła mi ona ciekawą przygodę owianą tajemnicą, bogate wrażenia wizualne oraz niezłe zagadki, ani nie za trudne, ani nie nazbyt oczywiste.

Jest to w sumie zwyczajny walking simulator, a interakcja ogranicza się do zagadek środowiskowych, więc próżno szukać tutaj akcji czy elementów zręcznościowych. Konstrukcja wyspy jest liniowa i prosta, a lokacje niezbyt obszerne, korytarzowe i łatwe w nawigacji, przedzielone naturalnymi barierami, których otworzenie jest naszym zadaniem. Ot, typowy, naturalny postęp w tego typu grach.

Sposób podania, mimo że nie wnosi nic nowego, tak dzięki całej fabule, samej narracji i dochodzeniu do faktów, jest zaskakująco grywalny i z przyjemnością odkrywałem kolejne informacje oraz rozwiązywałem zagadki. Wszystko układa się powoli w całość, a zakończenie nie jest takie oczywiste, jakby się wydawało. Całość ociera się zgrabnie o Lovecrafta, czerpie z niego garściami w niektórych momentach, wprowadza pożądaną zarówno atmosferę, jak i lekki dreszczyk emocji.

Same zagadki są dosyć podobne do siebie przez całą grę i nie zawadziłoby lekkie urozmaicenie, ale i tak mi się podobały. Wymagają ciut spostrzegawczości i logicznego myślenia, bazują na piktogramach i są tak pomyślane, że rozwiązanie nie jest od razu widoczne jak na dłoni. Niestety nasza postać potrafi zepsuć zabawę zbyt częstymi i nachalnymi podpowiedziami, a także sam dziennik zbytnio naprowadza na podpowiedzi. Tutaj bym ciut ograniczył te zapędy.

Niewątpliwą zaletą gry jest wspaniała, bajecznie kolorowa, stylizowana grafika. Lokacje, mimo że nie są zbytnio odkrywcze i ma się wrażenie, że już gdzieś się je widziało, tak jednak są zaprojektowane pieczołowicie i wyglądają okazale. Bardzo mi się podobały widoki, oświetlenie, kolorystyka, tekstury, modele — utrzymane w specyficznym rysunkowym stylu, ale nie infantylnym czy karykaturalnym. Sam interfejs i nasz dziennik są również wyśmienicie zaprojektowane i życzyłbym sobie, aby w innych grach tyle uwagi temu przywiązywali.

Mocną stroną jest też udźwiękowienie i sam dubbing: zorientowany w sytuacji i podszyty emocjami, zgrabnie pasujący do wydarzeń. W tle przygrywa przyjemna muzyka, która potrafi zagrać na emocjach gdy trzeba, ale nie narzuca się zbytnio przy okazji.

Zasadniczo jedyne, do czego mogę się przyczepić to:
- zbyt dużo zdradzającą postać, która za często wygłasza truizmy i zdradza rozwiązania zagadek
- zbytnio podpowiadający dziennik
- powolne poruszanie się, co w niektórych, obszerniejszych, lokacjach ciut irytuje
- problemy z miksowaniem dźwięków: czasem niektóre dźwięki zagłuszają inne, a dialogi bywają za ciche
- problemy z ładowaniem jednego obszaru, który się zupełnie popsuł i musiałem wczytać grę
- problem z zapadaniem się pod ziemię po rozpoczęciu interakcji z niektórymi elementami z nieodpowiedniej strony

Technicznie było ogólnie dobrze i nie zaznałem ani zwiech, ani spadków klatek, ani innych problemów ze stabilnością. Jedynie te błędy w ładowaniu jednego obszaru ciut zdezorientowały na początku, ale na szczęście załadowanie gry pomogło naprawić sytuację.

Jest to bardzo solidna gierka, może nie jakaś odkrywcza czy wielce innowacyjna, ale to, co ma robić, robi naprawdę dobrze i potrafi wciągnąć, postępy są bardzo naturalne, a historia intryguje i popycha ku rozwiązaniu. Zagadki są o na tyle umiarkowanej trudności i złożoności, że spokojnie poradzą sobie z nimi wszyscy, jest to tylko kwestią czasu, dzięki czemu próg wejścia jest stosunkowo niski.

Oprócz paru błędów nie mam się tutaj do czego przyczepić i myślę, że każdy, kto lubi walking simulatory z zagadkami powinien śmiało spróbować. Nie jest to zbyt długa gra (długość zależy głównie od naszego intelektu), ale potrafi wciągnąć skutecznie i porwać atmosferą i historią. Są na pewno lepsze gry, dłuższe, z ciekawszymi i bardziej urozmaiconymi zagadkami, ale ogólnie jest to godna polecenia pozycja na dwa, trzy wieczory.

The sea calls me home

Call of the Sea is a visually stunning and narrative-driven puzzle adventure that embarks players on a captivating journey through an enigmatic island filled with mysteries and secrets. The game's art, storytelling, and puzzle-solving elements come together harmoniously to create an engaging and immersive experience. While it has its strengths, some minor shortcomings prevent it from reaching its full potential.

Visuals and Art Style:
Visually, Call of the Sea is a very pretty. The hand-painted art style and vibrant colours breathe life into the mysterious island setting. The attention to detail in the environments and character designs is commendable, creating a world that is both beautiful and haunting. The game's ability to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity through its visuals is a definite highlight.

Storytelling:
The game's narrative is its driving force, taking players on an emotional journey through the protagonist's search for her missing husband. The intriguing plot slowly unravels, revealing layers of mystery and suspense that keep players invested in the story's outcome. The game's voice acting also adds depth to the characters and their emotions, enhancing the overall storytelling experience.

Puzzle-Solving:
Call of the Sea features a variety of clever puzzles that challenge players to think outside the box. The puzzles are well-integrated into the narrative, offering a sense of satisfaction upon completion. However, some puzzles can feel overly simplistic, and a few lack the depth and complexity that puzzle enthusiasts might seek. A bit more balance in difficulty would have elevated the puzzle-solving aspect further.

Gameplay:
While the story and puzzles are strong, the gameplay is where Call of the Sea falls a bit short. The movement and controls can feel clunky and imprecise at times, leading to frustrating moments during exploration and puzzle-solving. Additionally, the lack of interaction with the island's environment limits the sense of immersion, hindering players from fully experiencing the richness of the world.

Audio:
The game's audio design complements the overall atmosphere, with a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack that heightens the emotional impact of the story. The ambient sounds and voice acting add to the sense of immersion, creating a well-rounded auditory experience.

Length and Replay Value:
Call of the Sea offers a relatively short gameplay experience, which might disappoint players looking for a lengthier adventure. However, the quality of the storytelling and the captivating visuals make it a worthwhile journey for those seeking a memorable and emotionally engaging experience. Replay value is limited considering that the game is a linear puzzle-solving narrative experience.

In conclusion, Call of the Sea is an enchanting and visually captivating puzzle adventure that weaves an intriguing narrative on a mysterious island. While its art, storytelling, and audio are standouts, minor gameplay and puzzle shortcomings hold it back from reaching higher heights. Overall, it provides a satisfying and memorable journey for players who appreciate immersive storytelling and atmospheric exploration.

Touching mystery adventure for fans of the genre

None were experienced during my playtime with the game

The Outer Wilds, The Talos Principle, The Witness

Recommended 

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Par : The Dogfather

Recommended games are games I would have normally scored within a range of 7/10 - 8/10.

Juego de puzzles corto pero intenso. Tiene muy buenos puzzles para resolver ♥♥♥ una historia aceptable que te lleva al final ♥♥♥ ganas de saber que es lo que pasa. Gráficamente muy bello y muy agradable a la vista ♥♥♥ una banda sonora muy linda. Un juego mas o menos corto dependiendo del ritmo que le pongas y de lo que te tardes en hacer los puzzles pero bastante correcto el juego.

Unexpectedly good lovecraftian story! Aside from the framing (and ending) it is rather derivative, but it mostly "gets" lovecraft, or at least a self-sufficient part of it.

The game also looks amazing - sometimes a bit rough, but the scenes presented more than make up for it.

Unfortunately, the game design is... mediocre, at best?
The problem is that the "puzzles" are more like riddles, and have absolutely nothing to do with the theme of the game, most of the time.
It's the most egregious example of "game logic" I've seen in a long time. You're often just turning lever for no other reason other than that they're there and you know something will open up once you turn them all correctly.
Beyond that, the obstacles are pointlessly obtuse and serve no purpose other than to fill the time and serve as an excuse to call it a puzzle game rather than a walking simulator.

There is rarely any mechanic build-up or progression, each puzzle relying on a different and arbitrary set of rules.

Sometimes, you are also forced to walk back and forth to turn things on and off, again, for no reason.

Finally, there is one aspect that annoyed me greatly - you are given clues through in-games notes and so on. However, instead of the game trusting the player to figure things out (or to fine-tune the clues to make sure they will unambiguously lead to the correct solution), the designers rely on an auto-completed "notebook" which displays the right clues and information needed. This means you rarely need to think about what you find in the world. Instead, you turn your brain off, walk around interacting with everything (that has an interaction icon) and, in the end, look on the notebook for the steps to solve the puzzle.


Just to give a particularly infuriating puzzle example (spoilers ahead):

- you need to play a "stone organ", whose pipes are opened or closed by some pillars with a symbol on them, identifying the note. So far, so good.
- however, the symbols on the pillars are not the "real" symbols, instead they are shuffled, exchanged by other symbols. This transformation is somewhere else entirely, on a slide show. Also, there are several transformations, and the correct one depends on the height of the tide (because why not?).
- which notes to play? Well, that is revealed is two other parts of the island: (1) you need to solve a floating stone puzzle that will give you 3 random numbers (frequencies); (2) in another part of the island, there is a piano keyboard which reveals a number when you play a specific note.
- finally, on the rock organ, you need to play the notes that produce the frequencies from the floating stone puzzle, except that they are also shuffled by the tide.
This, of course, all involves walking to and fro, very slowly.

There could be other examples (although not as full of indirection).

The general point, however, is this: there is no internal logic the game. It's all "magic". You do things because you know the game will respond to it, even though there is no explanation or reason for them. There is no understanding underneath. There is no relation to the themes or writing.

So yeah. I felt like the puzzles, or "riddles", were awful and pointless.
If you can tolerate those, and you enjoy Lovecraft (in the sense of superstition, heredity, xenophobia, archaeology and dreams), there is an impressively looking game underneath, with a nice, if derivative, plot.

I'm giving it a positive just because the latter elements were a positive surprise.

I like most of puzzle games I played but certainly not this one.

+ Great environments.
+ Somewhat interesting story.

- Illogical puzzles.
- Very slow character movement.
- Infuriatingly slow ladder animations.
- Significant distances between puzzle elements.

If you enjoy this genre then this game is pretty much as good as it gets. None of the puzzles were frustrating or banally easy, the story is engaging, audio-visual side is top notch. I have really nothing bad to say about it.
Took me ~5hrs to complete without rushing through - I was satisfied (having paid full release price) but I imagine some people might take issue with the price/hours of play ratio so decide for yourself.

第六章有bug 千万不要站在坑里的台阶点击圆盘中心

可以说本游戏最吸引人的就是其绝美的画风，偏暗黑悬疑类游戏配上这么一个画风，说实话可以让游戏受众大大增加

Если разобраться, то игра очень короткая и не стоит таких денег, но... За такую замечательную историю у меня просто рука не поднимется поставить негативную оценку. Покупать или нет, решать вам. Купите ее по скидке, и это будет самым оптимальным и лучшим решением. Любви вам и простого человеческого счастья !

this game's great!
It's a puzzle game with a linear story which the developers did a fantastic job on it. I was the entire time looking for an answer and every completed puzzle felt like i was getting closer to my questions.
I left Cyberpunk hanging for 2 days so i could finish this game.
my rating is:
10/10, great story, cool puzzles, amazing environment all around. love it!

Épineuse question que de savoir si ce Call of the Sea mérite de débourser la modique somme de 20 euros pour pouvoir y jouer, surtout dans un tel contexte de crise où les banques suisses s'effondrent et que l'eau va bientôt disparaître, ainsi que l'avait prédit Monsieur Van Damme. Cette question est d'autant plus épineuse qu'elle concerne un jeu qui est bon, mais qui est, en fin de compte, juste bon. Seulement bon. Rien de bien dingue, en réalité. Mais suffisamment pour obtenir un pouce bleu, tout de même. Et d'en faire une évaluation.

✔: Comme un vent de fraîcheur

Je n'avais pas d'attente particulière en débutant Call of the Sea, si ce n'est une vague curiosité pour le produit qui m'a été généreusement offert par celui que je considère comme ma waifu virtuelle des cadeaux Steam. Cette curiosité s'est transformée en coup de cœur lorsque mes pieds (enfin, ceux de Norah, le personnage principal) ont foulé le sable de cette île polynésienne perdue au fond de l'océan. Le jeu est beau, l'ambiance est envoûtante, les environnements constituent un régal pour les yeux.

Le journal complète l'histoire. 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : Guizminator

Ce cadre insulaire, trop peu présent à mon goût dans les jeux vidéo, est sublimé par son histoire. Le voyage de Norah est autant une quête personnelle qu'une mission visant à retrouver son mari disparu à la suite d'une expédition. L'émotion est présente, notamment grâce à Cissy Jones (connue principalement pour son rôle dans Firewatch) qui prête sa voix à l'héroïne.

L'ensemble est sublimé par cette ambiance Lovecraftienne, mais qui n'en est pas réellement une. Le jeu marche sur l'esprit de Lovecraft, c'est indéniable, mais les développeurs ont réussi à aller au-delà, à proposer quelque chose d'original. Et donc, de plaisant à découvrir, encore une fois !

❌: Comme un air de déjà-vu

C'est pourtant en tant que jeu vidéo (c'est-à-dire en tant qu'expérience vidéoludique pure) que le bât blesse. Call of the Sea fait partie de ces jeux pensés avant tout pour raconter une histoire, nous donnant l'impression d'être davantage un spectateur qu'un véritable joueur. L'exploration est relativement cloisonnée (malgré un premier chapitre prometteur) et les énigmes faciles à appréhender (mais parfois difficiles à saisir dans leur logique).

L'enquête est ponctuée de flash-backs. 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : Guizminator

Quelques lacunes, probablement inhérentes aux capacités des développeurs, sont présentes, comme des murs invisibles, une absence totale de PNJ (justifiée en partie par la scénario, justifiée en partie par un effet de mise en scène qui relève plus du cache-misère) et une optimisation douteuse par endroits (rien d'anormal venant de mon PC de prolo', me direz-vous). Du reste, comptez six heures pour voir le bout de l'aventure. Un chiffre honorable eu égard au récit raconté, déshonorable eu égard au prix demandé.

Call of the Sea constitue pour moi le premier coup de cœur de cette année 2023. Du reste, il n'est qu'un bon jeu d'enquête, frais et agréable dans la forme, mais profondément quelconque dans le fond. Le récit et la présence de nombreux succès Steam peuvent éventuellement motiver certains à relancer une seconde partie, mais l'ensemble peine encore à justifier le prix exigé. Dans le doute, mieux vaut passer à la caisse lors d'une promotion pour être certain d'y trouver son compte !

🖥: Testé sur un i5-7400, GTX 1050 (2GB de VRAM), 8 GB RAM (1080p ; réglages Moyen ; 40 FPS).

Ещё одну в копилку,к прекрасному жанру "От точки до точки".Первый раз когда я увидела её на летней презентации я поняла что обязательно стоит оценить это самой.И вот она наконец-то вышла.

Господи,пусть с ним всё будет хорошо.
Сюжет игры происходит вокруг женщины по имени Нора.У которой пропадает муж на экспедиции и мы с вами должны чего бы нам этого не стоила отыскать его.После ночного кошмарного сна наше приключение и начинается.

Не возможно отвести взгляд.
Игра спокойная,не требует хорошей реакции и прочие.С первых минут после того как мы попали на остров,было понятно что здесь кроме передвижения от точки к другой точки и решения загадок нет не чего.Мы имеем записную книжку и всё.А БОЛЬШЕГО И НЕ НУЖНО)
Осматривать каждую локацию хочется по дольше и с каждой сменой это умножается в двое.Так что графике можно смело ставить Like.

Коротко говоря это скромная Лара Крофт от первого лица.
А если правду сказать,то уже нет сил ждать 10 декабря и эта игра поможет вам убить эти сутки.Так что дерзайте.

Спасибо за убитую минутку.Если вам понравился мой короткий обзор и вы его решили не только оценить но и наградить,то поставьте пожалуйста в комментарии "+" что-бы я вам ответила взаимностью.Всем хорошей недели.
Ваша Алина!

Непоганий квест за мотивами творів Лавкрафта. Своїм візуальним стилем чимось нагадує відомий Firewatch. З технічної точки зору Call of the Sea має певні проблеми - під час проходження не раз просідав фреймрейт, а у деяких локаціях текстури підгружалися прямо на очах. Зате квестова частина не підвела - загадки вийшли напрочуд вдалими і їх було цікаво розв'язувати. Та і сюжет, в результаті, теж виявився доволі хорошим. Тому, якщо вас не лякають вищеназвані недоліки (вони дійсно не такі вже й критичні), а душа прагне якоїсь містичної пригоди - Call of the Sea підійде на всі 100%.

... сказка про русалочку ...

В поисках мужа забрели
на таинственный остров на краю земли.

· любовь и смерть
· мистика
· красота цвета и звука
· интересные головоломки
· яркие сны

Как много тайн хранит в себе морская гладь,
но дорогого сердцу друга необходимо отыскать.

Call of the sea ist ein kurzes (4-7 Stunden Spielzeit) first person Abenteuer. Die Hauptfigur sucht ihren Ehemann, der auf der Suche nach einer Heilung für ihre Krankheit, verschollen ist. Der letzte bekannte Aufenthaltsort ist eine Insel im Pazifik wohin die Hauptfigur reist und wo sich die Geschichte grundsätzlich abspielt.

Diese Geschichte wird v.a. durch die Monologe der Hauptfigur erzählt, sowie durch die Tagebucheinträge. Gerade erstere sind gut gemacht und passend. Inhaltlich fand ich die Story gut erzählt und interessant. Kein absolutes Meisterwerk, aber doch kreativ, interessant und am Ende mit einer interessanten und wie ich fand sehr passenden Entscheidung versehen.

Vom Gameplay her steuert man durch ziemlich klar aufgebaute Level und löst verschiedene Rätsel, um im Spiel weiterzukommen. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad der Rätsel bewegt sich dabei von superleicht bis zu "braucht doch ein paar Hirnzellen". Ja, manche Rätsel brauchen etwas Denkarbeit, bis man sie durchschaut, aber keines der Rätsel ist unfair oder richtig bockschwer, sodass die meisten Spieler sie ohne Komplettlösung lösen können sollten.

Wenn man nicht gerade Rätsel löst, bewegt man sich über die Insel. Das hat manchmal etwas einen Walking-Simulator-Vibe, allerdings halten sich die Distanzen angenehmerweise gut im Rahmen. Die Grafik ist dabei durchaus hübsch anzusehen. Ja, das Ganze ist nicht die perfekte High End Grafik, aber doch alles sehr stimmungsvoll und aus einem Guss gemacht. Dazu kommt die tolle 30-er Jahre Atmosphäre, durch den Stil der Gegenstände, die Musik, Fotos etc.

Fazit: Call of the sea ist ein gutes Spiel für jeden, der gerne Rätseladventures mit interessanten Stories hat. Ich wurde jedenfalls bestens unterhalten und empfehle das Spiel deshalb gerne weiter.

昔ながら、なテイストを感じる良作アドベンチャーゲーム。Myst系統な感じだけどそこまで高難度じゃない。アクション要素皆無なので、落ち着いてじっくり謎機械パズルを解きながら進む。
進捗、情報がいつでも見られるログとメモに自動で追記されるので、メモられたら「あ、これがヒントだな」と気付けるし、メモに不自然な空白があれば「なんか見落としてんな」とわかる。

フィールドはそこそこ広いがチャプター毎に分断されていて、マップを要するほどの複雑さはなく特に迷わない。鮮やかな色彩のせいもあってインタラクト対象がやや分かり難いところもあるけど、敵もNPCも居ないし死にもしないし、慌てずゆっくりいきましょう。

クトゥルフ系統かと思いきや、ちょっと独特の世界観。南国タヒチの雰囲気とやや能天気な主人公で、結構酷いコト起きてる割には恐怖や不気味さも悲壮感も感じない。(スペイン産と聞いてなんか妙に納得)

翻訳は良好。ちょっとしたミスは若干あるがプレイの阻害になるほどじゃない。インディー系ならこんなもんか、いや充分良い方だと思う。

今までとくに話題を見聞きしなかったし、日本語のレビューも妙に少ないけど、隠れた名作、というところか。いや全然隠れなくていいのに。

FPVなので主人公の御姿を堪能できないのは残念だなぁ…

It looks like I am going to be a dissenting opinion. Call of the Sea is a predictable, contrived, tedious slog from start to finish, the veneer of pretty graphics gets you through the first hour or two.

You know the entire story and how it will end within the first 2 minutes.

The protagonist will quip about each puzzle element she finds and in doing so robs the player of the opportunity to puzzle solve; almost all puzzle solutions are spelled out in the journal for you too. The puzzles are generic and have been seen in so many other games. Even minor puzzling, such as turning items around to find hidden details on the back, is rendered pointless as the game provides an icon when there is something to find (and when there isn't there's no icon); it's such a bizarre design decisio

The movement speed, even when sprinting, is glacial and a source of endless frustration. Ladders are equally as insufferable with excessively long animations for getting on/off them.

The protagonist voice lines have zero emotion to them and she is not written like a human being. She simply spouts lines which feel like bullet points that the developers put in to make sure the player understands what's going on. These "bullet points" remove the mysterious and enticing urge to untangle the story, the protagonist will do it for you and in doing so relegates you to being a mere spectator for the most part; this game would have benefited immensely from a silent protagonist that let the player engage with the game.

Finally, this clearly Lovecraftian game is utterly unimaginative, it uses all of the usual tired tropes: fish monsters, returning to the sea, strange temples with non-euclidean architecture, etc.

色彩繽紛卻不失恐怖
劇情節奏得宜
儘管過程可能有點痛苦
但會讓人想一探究竟

真要說這遊戲的缺點
應該就是 走路慢到不行 吧

pretty environment make brain happy

What a refreshingly well-executed game! The puzzles were just the right amount of difficulty, with minimal hand-holding but clever and reasonable solutions. The story was coherent, the characters well sketched, and I found it compelling enough to finish this game in only a few sittings.

There were a few objects and moments that I felt deserved some more reaction from the protagonist, and I found even the sprinting pace a bit tedious especially in chapter 5 when you have to go back and forth a fair bit, but other than these very minor quibbles I have no complaints about this fun and diverting little adventure game/walking sim.

Ich spiele das Spiel in 4k auf maximalen Einstellungen und nehme dabei auf.
Ich kann sagen, dass die Grafik überwältigend ist. Der Ton ist sehr gut abgemischt, die Spielmechanik ohne Probleme.
Die Story ist interessant und baut gut aufeinander auf. Die Rätzel sind spannend, teils anstrengend, aber nie so kompliziert, dass es kein Vorankommen gibt.
Dieses liebevolle Spiel wird diesem Preis völlig gerecht. Ich hätte sogar noch mehr dafür bezahlt.
In 2,5 Stunden ist mir nicht einmal langweilig geworden. Es gab viele entspannte und atmosphärische Momente, aber auch Gänsehautfeeling.

Ich kann das Spiel nur empfehlen,
LG

A forma na água se inspirou em você ou você na forma água?

Jogo Adquirido pelo Humble Choice: Junho/ 2022

Incrível semelhanças com o filme vencedor do oscar de 2017; em call of the sea somos apresentados a personagem Norah; em uma ilha misteriosa, procurando por respostas do que aconteceu com uma expedição feita por seu marido para encontrar a cura de sua doença rara e misteriosa.

Por que a civilização desapareceu completamente e como aconteceu o sumiço de seu marido, são os objetivos principais da história. O game nos apresentará e nos guiar pelos caminhos realizados pela expedição, em 6 níveis procuraremos por provas, pistas, documentos e resolveremos puzzles que nos deixarão mais perto do segredo final.

Não é um game que vai agradar todos, embora ele contenha uma boa história, belas paisagens e uma boa trilha sonora; os puzzles deixarão o ritmo do game lento !! E isso pode gerar certa frustração nos jogadores, não são impossíveis; mais podem dar um certo trabalho para concluir.
Envolvem muito mais do que pegar um item e levar, ele envolve percepção dos desenhos e possíveis soluções; tendo assim como base de partida o bloco de notas da personagem, onde ela anota tudo que pode ser útil na jogatina.

Para quem gosta de fazer 100% de conquistas poderá vir a ser necessário um guia, pois todo capítulo a uma conquista oculta e também um item secreto.
Exemplo de conquista secreta: Ao final da fase 1 não avance para o 2, retome até a praia que iniciamos para ver que nossa jangada não esta mais la presa; podemos passar despercebido e perde-la caso não soubermos do segredo.


Em si call of the sea funciona bem para amantes de puzzles, serão bem feitos e detalhados e exigirá paciência para avançar no game, por melhor que a história seja; ela não conseguirá te fazer se prender ao game se você tiver raiva de de demora para sair de algum puzzle.

Call of the sea is a first person puzzle adventure game with beautiful 3d cartoon-like graphics sporting some epic scenery and vistas. It has an intriguing story that slowly unravels and has some twists and turns along the way. The story is primarily told through monologue of the main character who has a very good voice over artist, and the rest is told via notes and pictures left behind in the environment. The game took me about 6 hours to complete in one sitting, the puzzles aren't too demanding if you're a seasoned puzzle fan but offer enough of a challenge to keep you thinking.

They have removed some of the classic game play of puzzle adventure games, where you endlessly seek for inventory items or things to interact with. The game does a good job of giving you most of the information up front, so you can spend most of your time thinking and not messing about.

I highly recommend this for puzzle fans, it's an enjoyable and atmospheric experience, it doesn't outstay its welcome and has a good length for it's standard price of £15, so represents good value. My only real gripe with the game is the levels become very large as you progress and even when sprinting your character is quite slow, especially at climbing ladders, this makes it a bit frustrating and a lot of the games length comes from traversing quite large areas. This won't bother some but I found it became frustrating later on.

Oh, what good fortune it was that unanticipated events led to me playing this game! I'm inspired enough to do a full-powered review of it. Buckle in, for this is going to be very long.

Call of the Sea was never on my radar. Maybe I'd seen the cover art on the Steam storefront a few times. I didn't register the game in my mind even when it was a freebie on the Epic Games Store last month.

It was only when I purchased the Humble Heroines bundle[www.humblebundle.com] that I gave CotS a first look. I'd bought this bundle only for Syberia: The World Before, but I'd paid for all those other games, so I might as well see what they are, yea?



The thing that pushed me to actually play CotS, even though it wasn't in my game plan, was the fact it was built with Unreal Engine 4. There was a good chance I could enjoy viewing it in stereoscopic 3D with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 3D fix[www.mtbs3d.com].

The universal UE4 fix came through with flawless results. I viewed CotS in S3D with my VR headset, using the quasi-VR configuration I came up with to give a perspective on the game world that's almost as immersive as full VR. There's no head-tracking, but the game world still fills my field of view and is life-sized.

In an astonishing coincidence, a real VR port of Call of the Sea for the Oculus Quest 2[www.oculus.com] was released on the same day I started playing in 3D. I didn't find out about it until a day or two later. I don't have a Quest 2 or Quest Pro, so it wasn't an option for me, anyways.

So, all that's great. But what's even better is that the game is outstanding in its own right!

As mentioned, I'd purchased Humble Heroines to get a nice story and puzzle-adventure game with Syberia 4. I didn't enjoy it. So it's a shocking irony that one of the "extra" games I'd received in the bundle was actually the adventure gaming experience I'd failed to get with Syberia: The World B-4.

Call of the Sea is created in the modern style of adventure games where it's a slick and polished first-person perspective with smooth first-person shooter-style controls. Syberia B-4's pointing-and-clicking in a fully 3D rendered game world remains terrible and frustrating.

The similarities between CotS and SB-4 are actually astonishing. Both are about a woman finding clues to uncover past events, but CotS did it 10x better. Norah is intimately connected to what's going on, and there's a sense of urgency about finding her "pal" (her husband) and hopefully a cure for her 'condition.' Syberia: The World Before was a woman on a quixotic and silly quest to identify a young woman in a 60-year old sketch. It's absurd to compare the premises of these two adventure games.

Even though Kate Walker is one of my favorite adventure game heroines, I didn't have a good time with her in Syberia B-4. In CotS, Norah was a better Kate Walker than K.W. herself!

Even though the game is the typical lonely journey of adventure games, both classic and modern, she has a lot to say. The extensive use of inner-monologue makes her a real character and I thought it was very well written.

I was able to understand how this strange journey was affecting Norah. Her dialogue was written appropriate to the time period of the game, in the 1930s. When combined with the outstanding voice actress, I thoroughly enjoyed this main character.

Yes, this game involves cosmic horror, but it's not about that. There are typical themes about terrors in the deep, evil rituals and "Elder Gods" get mentioned by name. But these are inspirations for the backdrop of the main story: Norah uncovering the mystery of the expedition and slowing discovering the truth of who she is. The game isn't trying to be scary, either.

It has to be said that Syberia: The World B-4 did the same storyline with Kate Walker gradually learning about her true heritage as she searches for the woman (now very old, if she's even alive) in that drawing. There's also a music box that serves as the link to her past! Did the developers of Syberia B-4 take inspiration from Call of the Sea?

Puzzles in Call of the Sea are mostly environmental interactions. It has clever adaptations of puzzle types that would normally be something you'd play on a piece of paper or on a screen; not with giant, ancient mechanisms. The puzzles being objects in the game world enhanced the playability of this game in stereoscopic 3D. Great!

In keeping with modern adventure game design, these puzzles are self-contained in an area and don't have obscure solutions. Everything you need to solve a puzzle is in the area, somewhere. There's a notebook Norah writes log entries into, which often aids in solving puzzles.

There's exactly one problem I had with the game. I completed the game and wanted to replay the last chapter to see the other ending. But the chapter select menu only had the prologue available. I got achievements for completing chapters, so this was very unexpected. I can find online videos of the other ending, but I wanted to view it myself in immersive stereoscopic 3D. Oh, well.

There have been a significant number of talented small-time or unsigned bands that I've discovered through sheer luck, whose music I have been blown away by. The odds were stacked against me ever discovering what they've created, but fortune graciously allowed for me to find them.

Call of the Sea is the first time I got that feeling with a video game. I'm glad I held off for a year on buying Syberia: The World Before (which I didn't even like) so that I'd instead get it along with CotS as part of a bundle from Humble Bundle.

Even though I'd got the game completely free a few weeks earlier, that wasn't sufficient for me to go outside of my already full list of must-play games to give it a try. Everything had to happen exactly as it did for me to play the game and eventually write this glowing review. That self-same review is getting way too long, so let's end the review now.

Call of the Sea a été une incroyable surprise pour ma part.

Mélange habile de mythe lovecraftien couplé à de l’aventure pulp avec un soupçon de Jules Vernes, Call of the Sea propose une odyssée narrative réussie, matinée de puzzles qui fonctionne à merveille, le tout dans une atmosphère tropicale absolument délicieuse.

La grande force du jeu réside dans le ton adopté : une relecture contemporaine fascinante du mythe qui délaisse l’horreur et l’angoisse propre à la figure des grands anciens pour la curiosité et le sentiment d’émerveillement.

Une approche originale, et plutôt inédite qui place d’emblée le jeu comme l’une des meilleures adaptations vidéoludiques de l’univers de Lovecraft. Non-seulement, les auteurs ont compris le pouvoir de suggestion de l’œuvre (l’expédition de Harry) mais ils ont sciemment décidé d’emprunter une autre direction, d’adopter un point de vue à la fois proche de l’Humain mais également du « monstre ».

Très éloignée des clichés du genre, de la routine horrifique proposées par les autres adaptations, Call of The Sea arrive donc à tirer son épingle du jeu tout en offrant une aventure romantique qui aborde la quête des origines et de l'émancipation. Le tout dans un écrin des plus somptueux : un direction artistique chatoyante maitrisée de bout en bout et un aspect sonore véritablement plaisant.

Call of the sea, est beau, émouvant, bien écrit, attachant et plus important que tout : il m’a bouleversé dans son approche, son idée à la fois si simple et si belle de sa réinterprétation de la "Rêverie d'Innsmouth".

Plus jamais je ne lirais lovecraft de la même manière.

Call of the sea - это достойный внимания инди-тайтл.
Золотой самородок в куче перегноя, блеск которого легко не заметить.

Я имею ввиду, что «Зов моря» - это в первую очередь головоломка. Не просто нагроможденная неуместными ребусами игра, чтобы искусственно оттянуть время, а искусно обрисованные фресками древней цивилизации тайны. Но, как гласит правило потребителя: мы здесь не для созидания и решения, а для хлеба и зрелищ! Поэтому, и не только, данный проект жанра - «головоломка», легко не заметить. А тем более не каждому придется по нраву трогательная история, повязшая в поиске сердечного друга, который, в свою очередь, отправился на поиски лекарства от нашей неизвестной науке болезни.

Развернутый формат обзора

Заметил, немногие рецензенты пишут: «Я Лавкрафта не читал, в игре нечево непонел, поэтому не советую играть без знаний о мифах Ктулху». Это совершенно глупый, необоснованный критерий, ибо напротив - древние тайны острова самостоятельные; хоть и были вдохновленные Лавкрафтовым стилем. Не обошлось и без таинственной мифологии предков Полинезии - племени Тики, которые имеют легенды с монолитными истуканами на острове Пасхи.

Резюмируя вышеизложенное, можно сказать, что от Лавкрафта мы получаем морскую глубину мистических событий. Остров дарит нам сказочное наслаждение тропических широт. Собирательство информации о головоломках, ведение дневника о результатах поиска мужа подталкивает себя чувствовать Ларой из имения Крофт. История иллюстрирует силу любви или принятия. Полинезийская мифология же - это очень подходящий простор для безумно жутких, жестоких божеств и фантазий Лавкрафта. У меня всё. Спасибо.

First of all, the game is not bad, however, it is hard for me to recommend it to someone. This is the type of game that focuses on story and puzzles, unfortunately, i think it fails to deliver a meaningful experience at the end.

Good
- The art is gorgeous, graphics are great, lighting is really nice. If you like strong environments in games this is for you.

- Good and steady performance.

- I really like the fact that the protagonist writes everything down. This prevents (most of the time) backtracking a lot... thank god! because backtracking in this game is painful.

Bad
- Movement as a whole is annoying. The speed of the protagonist is super slow. The problem IMO is that there isn't a "Toggle run button" option in the accessibility menu, which means that you will have to hold the Left shift button during the entire game. To me this is probably the main reason why i can't recommend this game.

- Puzzles in this game have the same problem many games have: they do not belong to the world they are in. Just to be clear, the puzzles are not "boring" but they aren't fun either. A good puzzle doesn't feel like a puzzle. During the journey you will feel like a lab rat solving one problem after another. For a game that orbitates around puzzle solving this can be bad.
Also, good puzzles could help with world building and story.

- The story is OK i guess. The problem IMO is that it ends up being just another lovecraftian weird story without answers. It seems like the story was there just to justify some puzzles and not the other way around.

A very nice ( somewhat short ) experience, Interesting story. part "walking simulator" the puzzles solid, the world is beautifully designed. Great art style.
9/10 for me.

游戏好游戏，优化还行，很喜欢这种画风，第一人称代入感极强
不好的就是走路太慢，跑也慢，不知道什么原因游戏退出后steam还一直显示正在运行

Avec une très belle narration, son style cartoon en ombrage de celluloïd, ses couleurs chatoyantes et sa réalisation soignée, Call of the Sea se parcourt avec plaisir. On est certes seul(e) sur cette île, mais le personnage principal parle régulièrement pour partager ses pensées et on évite ainsi le sentiment de vide qui est un peu l'écueil de bon nombre de jeux d'aventure où il n'y a pas de personnages avec lesquels interagir.

Je l'ai acheté lorsqu'il était en promotion et franchement, je ne regrette absolument pas.

Le seul hic est sa durée de vie, environ 5 heures pour finir le jeu, un peu plus pour collecter tous les secrets et autres trophées, même si cela se fait très bien avec le système de sélection de chapitre.

Autre éventuel bémol : malgré sa plastique, les thèmes abordés ne sont pas particulièrement réjouissants et le jeu devra sans doute être tenu éloigné des enfants les plus sensibles (à condition qu'ils sachent par ailleurs lire, Call of the Sea étant uniquement sous-titré).

Eu sempre fui um admirador de jogos "Lovecraftianos" ou que bebem da fonte de H.P Lovecraft. Adorei essa estética do jogo misturando estruturas criadas por seres humanos como tendas e mecanismos com estruturas quase que divinas e mágicas da ilha. Cada level é mais imersivo que o outro e no final das contas achei barato pelo preço que paguei.

Infelizmente é um jogo curto, joguei bem lentamente e mesmo assim em menos de 6 horas eu zerei. Mas como dividi em 3 dias, acabei não sentindo uma sensação de quem teria sentido sentando por 6 horas seguidas de uma vez.

Enfim nota 9.5/10. Trilha sonora muito bonita com músicas originais e resgastes históricos incríveis, conquistas satisfatórias de se ir atrás, história bem contadinha, narração boa. Se tu gosta de jogos de puzzle e história e de quebra curte Lovecraft, Call of The sea é perfeito. :)

I had a good time !

What drew me into this game was the fact that it looked so pretty, and this was no disappointment. Also, i like puzzle-adventure games, and i was happy to get into that once again.

I have a few critics about Call of the Sea though :
- The adventure is too guided to my taste. It's like following a rail. It can be a positive point for those who just wanna enjoy the atmosphere, discover the story without too much thinking. Not saying the puzzles are obvious either, but overall it felt too easy. And the story... it's typical Lovecraft. That's great, but it felt like it's always the same... no surprise, no suspense, i got a feeling that i saw it all already :/
- The main character wasn't realistic in my opinion, and this broke my immersion by A LOT. Spoilers for those interested : She is searching for her husband who disappeared on the island, but she acts so calmly and it a detached manner that it feels she doesn't care a bit. Aren't you worried for the one you love ? From the beginning to the end, her reactions don't match the situation at all, and i think it's a pitty.
- The gameplay : you can't jump, you can't die... and it feels so linear ! I wish the gameplay would change along with the story : going darker -> going less easy, less obvious ?

Overall, i feel like the devs wanted to make a beautiful, feel good game, and i think they pulled it off. That's just not what i expect from games anymore, cause it makes them feel predictable, slick, maybe even a little soulless. But i still had a good time playing this game, and i'm sure many people will !

Call of the Sea is a puzzle adventure with light horror elements. The female protagonist searches for her husband in a desolate island in Tahiti, whom set out to discover a cure for his wife's mysterious disease.

Positive:
- Amazing visuals. Instead of going with a dark and sinister tone designers opted for bright colours and almost cartoonish textures, which worked surprising well for this type of a game. Environment design is also top notch, especially underwater levels. Do yourself a favour and try to play this game on a big screen.

- This was definitely one of the better Lovecraft inspired stories I have ever seen. The pacing, characters and everything was well above average. It is not easy to pull of Lovecraft like that, writers did a very good job.

- Designers managed to keep puzzles easy and interesting at the same time. Most easy puzzle adventures end up being boring, but I never felt that with Call of the Sea.

Negative:

- Although I said that puzzles being easy is not a problem, I actually wished that game got a bit more difficult towards the end. The progression of difficulty was very nice in the beginning. But the difficulty saturates around the halfway point and it doesn't get any more challenging. There is a bit of a wasted potential there, because there were some very interesting puzzles in the second half, which would have benefited greatly from being more difficult and complex (for instance the alien language puzzle, or the underwater currents puzzle).

- Game is a bit on the short side, it took me around 6 hours to beat it. I can understand that not all games need to be long, but I really wished there was a bit more challenging puzzles and gameplay.

- The default walking and running speed is a bit slow, which becomes annoying in the larger areas in later chapters. I wish there was a slider to adjust that.

Conclusion:

Call of the Sea is a fine little puzzle adventure with awesome graphics and interesting (albeit easy) puzzles. It also has a very solid Lovecraft inspired story. I would recommend it to the fans of this genre. That being said, I would have easily bumped the score to an 8/10 if there were more challenging puzzles and longer gameplay, especially in later chapters of the game.

Score: 7/10.

공식한글화 / 도전과제 O /트레이딩 카드 X

사라진 남편의 흔적을 쫓아 기이한 문명의 유적이 있는 미지의 섬에 도착한 노라를 플레이 하는 스토리 중심의 퍼즐 게임입니다 !
맵 곳곳에 남편과 조사대가 남긴 흔적을 잘 수집하고, 섬의 이곳저곳을 돌아다니며 퍼즐을 풀어야 합니다.
퍼즐을 풀기 위한 힌트는 맵 곳곳을 돌아다니며 상호작용하면 알아서 일지에 저장되는데 그것을 보시고 풀면 됩니다.
그런데 주인공 노라가 병에 걸려 있어 빨리 걷기를 해도 많이 느려서 약간 답답하실 수도 있습니다ㅜ
하지만 한글화도 잘 되어 있고 풀 더빙 스토리는 매우매우 만족스러우실거에요~
플탐은 6~7시간 정도이고, 도전과제는 꼼꼼히 이곳저곳 살펴보신다면 1회차에 올클리어 가능합니다.
혹시나 빼먹은게 있더라도 챕터 선택화면에 뭐가 부족한지 잘 나와있어 괜찮습니다.
매우매우 추천드리며, 조금 여운이 남는 게임이네요 ㅎㅎㅎ

This game was a complete surprise for me, I haven't heard from it before, it appeared on a suggested list.
If you liked games like Monkey Island, or puzzle games in general, you're going to have fun with this one.
It has a beautiful story, different and it will keep you going.
You can feel the dedication and love put in the game, I hope they keep making more games, it would be a 10/10... if you get to interact and see more characters, so you don't feel so alone.

Игра представляет собой спокойную бродилку, врагов в игре нет, умереть или упасть с какой-нибудь скалы не дадут. Игроку предлагается полностью сосредоточится на сюжете, сборе информации и головоломках. Нужно это все, собственно, для раскрытия сюжета, поэтому максимальное исследование приветствуется и вознаградит игрока полной картиной происходящего. Плюс на каждом уровне находится две относительно крупные головоломки, которые нужно решать, собирая в журнал и анализируя информацию, а также головоломки помельче, которые просто решаются на месте, без дополнительных подсказок – какие-то мостики выставить или кнопки нажать в определенном порядке.

Головоломки сделаны очень неплохо, для крупных задачек выглядит это так – игрок находит головоломку и осматривает местность, находя различные подсказки, которые моментально заносятся в журнал, который в любое время можно открыть и подумать над решением. После нахождения всех подсказок, необходимо понять логику решения и выполнить ряд действий. За редким исключением, все головоломки сделаны достаточно логично и на основе собранной информации без проблем можно догадаться о решении.

Вся информация в журнале сохраняется после прохождения, а также можно подгружать любой уровень, пройденный ранее – достаточно сохранить игру в произвольном месте, потом выбрать уровень в меню, а позже вернуться к сохранению. В этом случае можно даже искать пропущенные заметки – тогда записи журнала в более позднем сохранении будут заполняться добранной информацией из предыдущих уровней - благо процент собранной информации отображается при произвольном выборе уровня. Зачем все это нужно – конечно же, для достижений - основной процент собранных заметок способствует только погружению в атмосферу. А для понимания сюжета будет достаточно беглого осмотра местности.

В игре очень интересный дизайн уровней. Их на самом деле немного, всего 7, но мне очень понравилось, как они передают атмосферу происходящего. Начинается игра на солнечном берегу, где все ярко, красочно и спокойно. Птички, яркое окружение – почти ничего не омрачает наше повествование и перспективы смотрятся оптимистично. Далее мы попадаем на объемную локацию ночного берега, который, наоборот, вызывает только уныние, тревогу и неизвестность. А берег в свою очередь перетекает в утренний дождь, когда все тревоги смываются вместе с пылью и картинка вновь становится чистой и яркой. Дальше уже дело обстоит похуже, так как игра переходит в финальную часть, а там уже не до красот, так как дело идет к развязке.

В минусы игры записать практически и нечего, отмечу лишь отсутствие возможности пропускать сценки на движке игры, что немного напрягает при повторном прохождении уровней.
Ну и надо понимать, что это конечно инди, а не супер-пупер проект и ожидать чего-то этакого от игры не следует. Но в рамках схожей весовой категории, игра вполне на уровне по качеству.

Beautiful scenery. It's full of unsolved mysteries. Interesting and relaxing.

《Call of the sea》雖然帶有一點克蘇魯神話內容，但完全沒有洛式恐怖元素。它有著好聽的音樂、色彩豐富的畫面、有趣的解謎以及可歌可泣的愛情故事。

P.S.

1. 由於女主角身體不太好，雖然有跑步功能，但實際體驗比較像是“快走”，導致我有時候差點失去耐心…
   
2. 少數能令我暈眩的鏡頭，盯著螢幕四處找物件時，會有點小痛苦。

Неплохой симулятор ходьбы. Головоломки не понравились, довольно сложные и не очевидные.

我目前玩过最最最最最最拖沓的游戏！！！！！奔着冒险和剧情丰富的tag来玩的，对我而言是进大坑了！！！

首先是 奇慢无比的移动速度，路边奶奶推轮椅都比你主角加速跑跑得快！！上个梯子一分钟，下个梯子一分钟，更加可恶的是居然中间有一个场景特地给你做了个塔楼，要爬两段梯子！！！！肯定是故意的吧？！！！而且！每段解密场景还都很大，你要是搜集信息漏了一个，卡关卡在那里本来就够烦躁了，我还要控制主角从地图的这一头慢慢爬到另一头！！！！

其次！剧情看了开头就能猜到结尾！！推到一半我只想对着攻略赶快把这个游戏结束！

此外，在玩这个游戏之前我从来没有体验到晕3D是什么感觉，谢谢你让我感觉到了！

整体游戏的节奏让我开2分钟就想把游戏关了，再结合3D眩晕以及有时候解不开的谜题，玩这款游戏的六小时让我备受煎熬！

I was drawn to this game for the beautiful artwork, music, interesting lore, and puzzles—all of which are very enjoyable. I would recommend this game for those reasons.

Unfortunately, the camera controls with the mouse gave me motion sickness (the first game ever to do so for me). I endured uncomfortable feelings as long as I could, thinking I would get used to it, but after 45 mins my stomach and head couldn't take anymore. Changing settings like FOV, motion blur, and lower graphics quality weren't enough to counteract the sickness. I think the camera movement's acceleration is a large contributor to the problem I'm experiencing. Even with motion blur turned off, everything seems to blur together when turning—like riding a carousel.

I would love to be able to recommend this game—it is clear an immense amount of passion went into its creation—but unfortunately I won't be able to experience it for myself in its current state. If you are susceptible to motion sickness, beware!

Я могу поднять взрослую лошадь над головой. Могу задержать дыхание на десять минут. Я не чувствую боли и способна видеть мельчайшие детали на расстоянии 3 километра. Ни один человек не способен меня убить. Я победила человека каждой расы в боях без правил, включая Турков, Пигмеев и Глубоководных Евреев. Врач и два священника подписали документ, доказывающий, что у меня нет души. Я по желанию меняю биологический вид. Я ломаю остров одной рукой. Но я не могу найти мужа, который потерявся...

Самая комфортная игра по Лавкрафту

首先，这是一款视觉十分享受，音乐也十分迷人的步行模拟解谜游戏。随便截个图都能当壁纸，bgm也很舒缓，很让人愉悦。但是解密是不是难度太高了？我是来享受剧情和风景的，就好比有一个非常好的电影摆在面前，我却只能边跑边看。经常卡关查攻略，我差点怀疑是不是我的智商出了问题。
还有女主走的也太慢了吧，本来美好的心情被高难度的谜题和女主便秘的速度毁的一干二净。
不过我还是推荐了吧，这个价格这个品质的游戏还是非常值得一玩的,总的来说，瑕不掩瑜。
打分7.5/10。

Лодка с главной героиней медленно плывёт по направлению к скрытому постоянным туманом полинезийскому острову из ранее увиденного сна. Играет эпичная музыка, как в классических приключенческих фильмах о сокрытых тайнах прошлого, подстегивающая к исследованиям. «А это точно не игра по Стивенсону или Верну?» Первое впечатление оказывается неожиданным, но игре еще предстоит удивить далеко не единожды.

Нора Эверхарт мучается от таинственной болезни много лет, а её муж, бесследно пропадает в поисках лекарства в далекой Полинезии. Другая бы мысленно похоронила пассию, но только не она. Приключение, которое её увлечет, откроет множество тайн. Исчезнувший народ, древние механизмы, бесконечные головоломки и околоволшебные ритуалы – классические атрибуты в наличии. Но главный секрет сокрыт в самой Норе.

«Call of the Sea» представляет собой приключенческую игру, сочетающую симулятор ходьбы с решением головоломок и изучением окружающего мира. Причем все задания гармонично «встроены» в созданную авторами действительность. Сложность растет постепенно, а в журнал Нора записывает всё найденные подсказки, что помогает справляться с трудностями.
Обладая многочисленными отсылками к творчеству Лавкрафта, игра рассказывает самостоятельную историю. Причем прохождение «Call of the Sea» можно смело назвать самым «безопасным» для особо впечатлительных игроков, желающих приобщиться к тематике глубоководных тайн, но нежелающих при этом быть напуганными. Термин «лавкрафтовский ужас» определенно не про эту игру. Яркая и спокойная цветовая гамма соответствует общей атмосфере приключения, несмотря на наличие в сюжете событий с фатальным исходом.
Арт-дизайн и общее графическое исполнение игры находится на высшем уровне. Местные водопады посреди тропиков и солнечные закаты заставят часто остановить путь и просто полюбоваться окружением. Музыка великолепна, как и аудио-сопровождение. Главная героиня интересно комментирует происходящее, так и каждую найденную улику. Претензия лишь к первым главам игры. Очень уж спокойно ведет себя Нора, оказавшись одна на необитаемом острове. От этого в происходящее иногда перестаешь верить.

На что готов человек ради любви? Что важнее: уготованная судьба или преданность вопреки? Игра задаёт эти вопросы, но не мучает прямой излишней философией, чтобы игрок сам определил для себя основу «Call of the Sea». Несмотря на суть главной тайны, до которой может догадаться игрок в самом начале, игре удается удивить парочкой сюжетных поворотов, избежав использования излишне заурядных приемов. Рекомендую к прохождению.

算不錯的劇情，結尾有兩個選項，
但感覺好像都沒差多少XD

後面有些謎題太難了，
像第四章的山頂小屋要翻譯壁畫那個真的不知道到底怎麼解

有些又會故意用符號擾亂，
讓人想到一個腦子爆炸然後才發現符號不是重點:D
(像: 第四章要放水那裏 )

撇除難到無法理解的一兩個解謎外，
其實就是一個走路看故事的遊戲XD

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一些需要思考或需要找到關鍵的解法:

第二章
稜鏡:需要去看被羅伊爆破過那口井的裡面
爬下去後把每個井壁上的眼睛都看過一次
筆記本就會有三種瞳孔樣式->回去稜鏡那
把那三種瞳孔的樣子全部打上去
(稜鏡最後會是三個疊圖的概念)

第三章
風琴:1.要先在船上把懸浮的黑液的頻率找到
(打開開關、每個旋鈕會讓其中兩個做移動、
要到一定高度才會亮綠燈 三顆黑液都要亮綠燈)
*得到的那三組頻率會是線索
2.取得頻率後 到海灘上找日曆
*得到當天是7號 剛好是新月的線索
3.找投影機
*得到潮汐/海岸高度的線索
4.投影機旁邊的桌子有鋼琴鍵 全部敲完
*得到各個符號的頻率
5.之後走上去風琴那 把中間的圓形地板調整成新月(全黑)
然後 往右側樓梯往下走 會發現潮汐的高度
(可能要再回去看投影機? 因為我順序都亂跑XD)

6.之後按照筆記本的內容 選擇:
262(A.完整菱形) 349(B.四顆菱形) 415(C.中垂直線)
因潮汐的變化
要把上面的符號轉變一下
A->中間橫線 B->完整菱形 C->兩個菱形
之後看指揮台(?) 所要做的就是讓
完整菱形、兩個菱形、中間橫線 這三個符號讓黑液通過
所以要去四周圍找這三個符號讓它是黑色的
** 故-> 把其他的全部往下扳/白色 (關鍵的那三個維持在上側/黑色)
最後點下面那顆按鈕就好了

第四章
放水唱歌(?)
1.找出四個壁畫
2.看圓形場地的中央地板會看到*四個菱形的順序
3.不要管符號到底有什麼意義
4.壁畫上的圖案去對應第二步驟找到的圖案在的位置去壓方塊就好
*意思就是你每個石板只會壓一個方塊
***符號只是讓你去對應要壓上下左右而已
不要思考它畫線跟圓圈的位置

山頂小屋 這個超難 我只知道答案 求解釋
(口->門 ABCD->四個圓盤)
位置圖:
口
B(指針向右) C(指針向下)
A(指針向上) D(指針向下)

按到對應的位置門就會開惹

*有查到解釋 但還是不懂 :D
(轉化 對應 神血
黑液 對應 轉化
生命 對應 水中生物
永生 對應 水中生物)

Great game!

Call of the Sea is a new take on Lovecraft’s lore with a vivid introduction that enhances the moments when the game transitions into darker waters!. Call of the Sea might be short but It is a highly rewarding puzzle adventure that should be played by all fans of the genre.

Great Music!

Call of the Sea convida o jogador a explorar uma ilha misteriosa, na costa do Taiti, em 1934 e tentar decifrar o inexplicado desaparecimento de uma expedição arqueológica. O grupo, liderado por Harry, procurava, nas ruínas locais e nas lendas que cercam a região, uma cura para a estranha condição que acomete Norah. Após um longo período sem notícias de seu marido, ela recebe pelo correio um pacote com uma foto antiga, uma chave com as iniciais C.W. e uma bizarra adaga.

A partir dessas pistas, embarcamos em uma jornada da qual não sairemos da mesma forma que entramos. Vestimos a pele de Norah e somos acompanhados pela sua bela narração até os últimos minutos de um jogo curto, mas marcante. Parte do charme que nos cativa emerge justamente da dublagem excepcional de Cissy Jones, veterana dos jogos eletrônicos (ele foi a voz de Delilah, em Firewatch, entre tantos outros trabalhos). O resto do elenco também faz um bom trabalho, mas a quase onipresença de Norah é sustentada pelo carisma do roteiro e pelo talento de Jones.

Norah é então a coluna que sustenta essa narrativa. Atormentada por visões perturbadoras de outras realidades ou vidas, seu corpo doente se revigora ao ouvir o chamado do mar que batiza o jogo. Através dela, vivemos essa aventura, entendemos seus dilemas e somos conduzidos até uma escolha final que será o ápice de uma história que fala mais sobre aceitação do que sobre horrores, mais sensível do que macabro. No estouro do trovão de uma noite chuvosa, Call of the Sea é uma agridoce fábula que talvez colocasse um sorriso na face sisuda do próprio Lovecraft.

Nem tudo no jogo é o que parece ser e isso inclui seu trailer e seu material publicitário. A opinião que eu tinha de Call of The Sea (compartilhada por um camarada jornalista), é que teríamos aqui um "walking simulator" em uma ilha tropical. Esperava elementos da cultura pulp fiction dos anos 30, alguma bravata, um Uncharted sem ação.

O que a Out of Blue entrega é o oposto de tudo isso. A ambientação é pesada do meio para o final. A beleza da Unreal Engine com seus ambientes coloridos, que invariavelmente remetem a Fortnite, até está presente nos capítulos iniciais, mas cede lugar a um clima soturno, com passagens subterrâneas, uma noite tempestuosa e muito horror corporal.

Infelizmente, aqui aparece também um velho problema do motor gráfico, a escuridão excessiva nos cantos, um fenômeno que eu já havia percebido no quase visualmente impecável Draugen. Supostamente, é possível ajustar o brilho nas configurações gráficas, mas o jogo insiste em ignorar o que foi alterado no instante em que saímos da tela de menu. Para agravar a situação, as telas capturadas se mostraram ainda mais escuras do que aquilo que eu via no monitor e algumas acabaram nem entrando nessa análise.

Passada a introdução da chegada de Norah na ilha, o título vai alternando momentos de deslumbre visual com passagens de angústia, flertando com a insanidade e o terror cósmico que você espera de Lovecraft. Ainda assim, Call of the Sea nunca cede à tentação de mergulhar de cabeça nos clichês repetidos à exaustão por todos aqueles que se deixaram influenciar pelos mitos de Cthulhu. Temos, desta forma, um jogo que puxa o jogador pelo braço por múltiplas emoções: apreensão, medo ancestral, encantamento, liberdade de tirar o fôlego, dúvidas, tensão, tristeza.

Em entrevista concedida ao Gamespot, a diretora do jogo, Tatiana Delgado, explicou que "Call of the Sea não é uma descida para a loucura, mas uma ascensão para a sanidade". Definitivamente, esse não é o Call of Cthulhu de tempos passados.

Da mesma forma, esperava puzzles simples, um Firewatch polinésio, no máximo. Novamente, um susto. A desenvolvedora toma uma decisão que irá testar a perseverança dos jogadores: os enigmas não são do nível básico. A memória mais próxima é o trabalho dos anos 90, na série Myst.

Traquitanas extremamente complexas exigem que o jogador decifre seu funcionamento e busque entender o que seus criadores desejam que seja feito. Isso, muitas vezes, não casa completamente com a situação e eu me peguei perguntando múltiplas vezes quem (ou o quê) teria concebido mecanismos tão antinaturais para realizar tarefas simples como regular uma queda de água ou mesmo estender uma ponte levadiça.

Felizmente, talvez para desespero dos puristas, Norah é uma observadora sagaz. Ela tece comentários sobre praticamente tudo que vê ou toca e faz anotações sobre os elementos mais importantes do enredo, assim como sobre as pistas fundamentais de cada enigma. Ainda assim, mesmo com todas as informações na sua frente, é possível perder um tempo enorme buscando uma forma de aplicar esses dados no cenário. Afinal, o que é pra fazer?

A Out of Blue desenvolve uma fórmula para Call of The Sea. Primeiro, introduz Norah em um novo cenário. É o momento de ela investigar quase item por item em busca de informações sobre o paradeiro da expedição de seu marido. Não é segredo que o desenrolar desse trabalho quase de detetive é uma rede de tragédias, que vão aumentando com um crescente.

Há algo de hostil na ilha que não deseja a presença de forasteiros. O lugar simplesmente não foi criado para o Homem. O estúdio espanhol realiza um excelente trabalho de narrativa ambiental, com fragmentos distribuídos de forma orgânica que pintam esse grande mural do destino de cada integrante da expedição.

Em um segundo momento, Norah irá esbarrar em algum obstáculo que a impede de ir para o próximo cenário, prosseguir com sua busca pela verdade. É nessa parte que o jogo perde um pouco de seu ritmo, seja com puzzles que exigem percorrer grandes distâncias, indo e voltando, seja com puzzles que exigem um bocado de massa cinzenta. Confesso que em três partes contei com a ajuda de um colega que estava mais avançado no jogo do que eu.

Um empurrão na direção certa e as peças se encaixavam na minha cabeça. Sem qualquer tipo de regulador de dificuldade, os puzzles certamente serão uma barreira para muitos jogadores atraídos apenas por seu universo fascinante. Por outro lado, sem o dreno de tempo de seus puzzles, a experiência seria ainda mais curta do que as cerca de 8 horas consumidas por mim nessa jornada. Curiosamente, e o Steam registrou equivocadamente 21 horas gastas aqui no PC. Um bug ou as leis do tempo e do espaço não se aplicam mesmo nessa ilha?

Call of the Sea é possivelmente a surpresa do ano ou minha memória já não é mais a mesma em um ano que parece ter durado uma década. Cada uma das minhas expectativas foi revertida ao longo de sua travessia. Algumas foram ruins, como a dificuldade exacerbada dos enigmas, outras foram tão positivas que me deram forças para levar o raciocínio ao limite e tirar a poeira de velhas engrenagens e sinapses.

Terminei o jogo com lágrimas, que não eram nem de pura tristeza, nem de puro júbilo, uma contradição final que coroa o título da Out of the Blue como um dos meus favoritos de 2020. Raras foram as vezes em que acompanhei os créditos de um jogo sem pular. Ali, naquele momento sagrado, a música mais uma vez exerce um papel de peso, com uma faixa da época que diz muito sobre o jogo e o relacionamento entre Norah e Harry.

Para minha última surpresa, há uma cena depois dos créditos. E, como tudo mais, em Call of the Sea, ela é mágica e dolorosa.

Publicado originalmente em: https://www.gamerview.com.br/reviews/call-of-the-sea

开始觉得是个克系悬疑故事，可恶，原来是爱情故事。被狗粮喂到。
解密层面，第四章搞得我头痛，直接宣布投降看了一下攻略。其他章节比较平稳。
手柄玩比较舒适，键鼠玩的时候觉得镜头很粘稠，需要设置里面调整一下。
推荐。

另外，侧面说明了一个好的克系的必要条件就是要有克，但不要沾太多克。

Turn off "Smooth Camera Rotation" in Options > Accessibility.

You're welcome.

非常好，通关后还让人感到意犹未尽，美工和剧情非常nice，演出很震撼，谜题的设计很巧妙，场景很美，音乐很棒，细节做的很到位，各种蒙太奇手法也细腻地刻画了主角的心理，美中不足的是角色走路有点慢，一些剧情的推进也显得过于急促，没有把背景都充分解密，比如香农夫人号是怎么搁浅的，古城提到的奴隶到底是什么生物，甚至最后高潮部分主角在圣堂发现丈夫的“尸体”后的为玩家揭示真相的过程更让我感觉这是主角接受不了事实而臆想出来的。。。
不过总体上还是瑕不掩瑜，我本来以为是克苏鲁系悬疑游戏，没想到这游戏讲的是个感人肺腑的爱情故事，对克苏鲁神话不太了解的玩家也能明白，结局我泪目了。。。( Ĭ ^ Ĭ )虽然在结局我们可以选择接受命运，回归大海
或者回去陪伴丈夫度过余生，但我还是选择了陪伴丈夫的结局，因为我想诺拉本人也会这么选择吧。。。
真正的爱情也许就如诺拉所说“各色爱情故事不会止于结婚典礼，葬礼才是这些故事最终的结局”，不向命运低头，让弱小的生命随着爱散发余热，陪伴着真爱度过自己的余生，这又何尝不是人类爱情的伟大之处？
当然，你也可以选择接受自己的命运，回归大海，回到你归属的地方。。。永远的离开原来的世界。在结局制作人员列表时，如果是回归大海，桌上二人合照的照片就是1930年的，这里的诺拉已经离开了亨利（丈夫），留下的只有回忆了；如果选择回家，桌上的照片就是1946年的，照片上诺拉的黑色斑点更多了，二人唱歌唱到后面诺拉也会咳嗽（细节啊）。
总之，我推荐。虽然作为一款独立游戏，不能说这是“神作”，但这绝对是一款十分优秀的游戏。

На первый взгляд ничем не примечательная квест-адвенчура оказывается очень эффектным и атмосферным опытом. Поиски пропавшего мужа выливаются в нечно, ну совсем уж непредсказуемое. С каждым уровнем, становится все интересней, а что же будет дальше? И игра не разочарует вас в этом вопросе. Также порадовало наличие плавного повествования, с небольшой порцией флешбеков и кучей исследования. Главная героиня тоже прописана замечательно, каждое событие меняет ее на глазах и заставляет сопережевать происходящему. Также стоит отметить наличие не самых простых головоломок, но их исполнение просто наивысшее (чего только стоит звуковая головоломка с морским органом). В общем не ожидал от нее ничего особенного, а получил яркое и насыщенное приключение, которое на какое-то время не даст о себе забыть. Рекомендую.

Sights & Sounds
- The visuals (both graphically and aesthetically) are outstanding. I started playing it on my monitor, but wound up switching to the TV and maxing out the FOV to really take it in
- The sound design is excellent in terms of effects and voice acting, but I found it necessary to bump down the environmental sounds a bit. Distant objects were often too noisy, making things a bit disorienting initially. The menu sounds were also unnecessarily loud. I was wearing headphones, so YMMV
- The background music worked well to complement the mysterious, surreal scenery. The original vocal tracks were also well-written and well-performed
- All in all, after a little tweaking, the presentation of this game is very impressive for an indie studio. Just wish the menu noises didn't hurt my eardrums

Story & Vibes
- The story is a carefully crafted Lovecraftian mystery. Usually, games involving Lovecraftian lore wind up leaning strongly into the horror aspects of the mythos. This game doesn't, sometimes to a fault
- It's not that I wanted this to be a horror game per se; rather, I wish it could have hit some of those notes without changing its tune completely. The game does try to inject those vibes from time to time, but the game expertly kneecaps itself with Norah remarking how unafraid she is on multiple occasions. Plot-wise, it makes sense, but it kinda ruins the emotional impact of some scenes
- I guess I just think that I wanted it to be a thriller instead of just a mystery. The plot is excellent, but a few more frightening moments would have really taken the experience up another notch

Playability & Replayability
- It's a 1st-person point & click puzzle-focused adventure game with light investigation mechanics. In a nutshell, that means you'll be walking around, reading stuff, putting together clues, and feeling stupid about not seeing solutions sooner
- If you've played What Remains of Edith Finch, this plays a lot like that
- While I'm not seeing a replay on the horizon, I did enjoy my experience enough to go back and get the achievements I missed. I wouldn't have been motivated to do this were it not for the extremely convenient chapter select menu

Overall Impressions & Performance
- If you're into adventure games and enjoy Lovecraftian themes, this is definitely worth your money. It's just a matter of how much you think a 6-8 hour playthrough is worth
- There was a little stuttering at times (had to turn vsync on), but not enough to be bothersome. It's a really minor gripe

Final Verdict
- 8.5/10. This game does everything right. Hell, it does everything well. If it leaned just a tiny bit harder on the horror to add a couple thrills, this would be a classic. That said, it's still extremely good

游戏半小时，头疼一整天。
晕3D慎入！！！

美术好棒画风好爱！喜欢剧情向3D解谜的玩家不要错过，强烈推荐！！！

For the life of me, I cannot understand how Call of the Sea is as highly reviewed as it is. This game was an utter disappointment. A beautiful shell with an empty interior, it's only real upside is the sheer graphical fidelity.

Let's start with that good part, the graphics. The game is gorgeous. I have barely any complaints on the graphical department. You have epic set-pieces, serene natural paths, and a great deal of environmental variety. Plenty of spots are perfect for just admiring, and at no point does the art style itself detract from the experience. Something I will come back to later though, is the lack of any actual character models. Nora is the only actual 3d character we ever see moving, and we only ever see her hands moving. There are 3d animated things, but actual 3d human characters just not there.

The audio design is a more mixed bag than the graphics. The voice acting is just... not good. You have the only real good part of it being (big surprise) Yuri Lowenthal, with the rest of the cast being a LOT worse at emoting and expression. The UI sounds are also just terribly annoying, with it sounding like a drop of water falling in a pond except it's happening right in your ear over and over again. The good is the music design and Yuri Lowenthal. Music is good, and Yuri did a great job with this role.

The gameplay though, is just baffling. It's a mix between a walking simulator and a puzzle game. The issue is that the puzzles are wildly inconsistent in quality, the walking is so incredibly slow, and it's never fun. Let's start with the walking part. You move at a snails pace, and "sprinting" just makes you move at a normal video game's walk speed. You also interact with things at a slow pace, with ladders being the most egregious offender. Do you like ladders being something that you interact with? Do you like the ladders having a 3 seconds animation of you getting on AND off them, and do you like moving up and down them being a slow process? Also there are puzzles past the ladders so I hope you don't mind not being able to complete a puzzle yet so you have to keep going up and down the ladder every time you think you've found the right answer.

The puzzles are just bad too. As previously said, Puzzles are both never fun and are wildly inconsistent in terms of quality. The puzzles range in difficulty from "a 5 year old could solve this easily" to making literally no sense at all. (Looking at you Organ puzzle) They also aren't at all interesting. I can forgive a puzzle game for having easy puzzles if the game either is incredibly unique or if it has a good story. We'll go over the story last, but this game is not incredibly unique at all. Games like Superliminal, Manifold Garden and Viewfinder are games that don't have difficult puzzles, but they make up for it in the sheer experience they offer. Evan's Remains is a good example of a game that doesn't have difficult puzzles but has a good enough story to make up for it. Call of the Sea does not impress on the puzzle front, at all.

Also good to note, that if you enjoy actually solving your puzzles then Call of the Sea is not for you. Nora, your player character, will literally spell out what you need to do for half the puzzles through her dialogue. For the other half she'll jot something down in a journal that is accessible almost anywhere and at anytime, and tells you exactly what you need to do. (except for some like the Organ puzzle) I know for a fact that people get upset when you're struggling with a puzzle and the game decides to just spell out the solution for you because it wants you to move on, God of War got a little flack for this itself. But for some reason this game is highly reviewed even though it does that for EVERY PUZZLE IN THE GAME FROM THE START.

The story isn't much better. It wants to be clever but, much like the puzzle "hints", it spells everything out the moment it becomes relevant. Nora will literally say exactly what is happening out loud for you to hear, removing any mystery from the situations and preventing you from having any "ah-ha!" moments of piecing things together. It's like she's reading you out a novel about her life, except she's all alone on an island and she keeps spoiling the story for whoever is listening. Seriously, whoever wrote Nora's dialogue, please never write dialogue again. Ever. There's also lovecraftian elements, tribal cultures and a love story but given how short the game is, none of it ever get's enough time to get interesting. It also is less than 4 hours long, for a $20 game, and you can 100% it in that time. Yikes.

I do wonder how much of the budget was spent on the graphical fidelity and on getting Yuri Lowenthal on the voice cast. Did they run out of enough money to, I don't know, make interesting puzzle or hire and actual writer? Did they not have enough budget to make 3d characters? Or was all this just thrown together because of some corporate mandate? Is the impossibly slow walking there to prevent the game from being under 2 hours so you can't refund it after finishing it? I don't know.

What I do know is that I did not enjoy this game and that I do not recommend it, at all.

Call of the Sea is an impressive debut title from Out of the Blue Games considering just how well they’ve managed to capture the essence of a traditional adventure game. The game takes players onto a captivating island full of secrecy, puzzles and hidden stories, and while sometimes the game fails to fully expand on these points, the high notes Call of the Sea achieves make it more than a worthwhile experience.

The visual presentation in Call of the Sea goes a long way with very simple graphics. Textures are very clean and readable, greatly complimented by the gorgeous lighting that makes exploration so intriguing and rewarding. The artstyle is simply gorgeous, there's plenty of opportunities to stop and admire the sights as every area is joyous to look at, a feeling that synergises with the gameplay so very well as many environmental details are essential for solving puzzles.

The environmental variety really keeps the game consistently interesting too. Every chapter has a very distinct visual style that keeps exploration fresh, and each chapter’s world beautifully reflects the tone of the story. There’s such a good contrast between the modern english explorer camps and the ancient island architecture that becomes really interesting as you delve further into the land, there's a lot of effort put into fleshing out how two separate societies have existed here.

The only downside would be the size of some areas are far too large and can be a big hindrance to puzzling. Norah moves fairly slowly, so running back and forth between landmarks could get tedious occasionally when you’ve seen everything in an area. It’s not a huge issue, but there are a couple specific moments in my memory that got quite annoying.

The puzzles of the island are a pretty interesting mix. You’re going to be sensing a pattern immediately, as most of the puzzles resolve around deciphering and understanding symbols to achieve various results in the world. Despite the repetition, these puzzles were always pretty interesting to solve. I liked seeing how the world would change after I figured something out, and I think they’re ingrained into the environment very well.

Usually the puzzles that went outside this formula were a bit less successful. Mostly infrequent, there were a couple puzzles I found to be irritating to work around and uninteresting to figure out. One relied on specific timing of inputs which didn’t really mesh with the rest of the game, and another seemed to ask for a very specific answer while giving so little information that it remained annoyingly hard even with all of the clues.

Thankfully, the diary mechanic is a wonderful addition that keeps these puzzles on track. Any information about the story or the puzzles you find will be immediately added to a diary you can always access. The information is always neatly indexed here so that you know if you’re missing important pieces, and I found the notation style and the journal entries themselves really helped flesh out Norah as a character.

The actual narrative of Call of the Sea is probably it’s weakest point, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t highlights. The best part I found was the pacing, the gradual drip feed of information about the expedition crew kept me engaged with the events of the narrative. It’s a very familiar story structure, but the execution is quite nice as things slowly start to get more eerie for the expedition crew.

Unfortunately, I don’t think the actual events within the story were very interesting. The initial questions posed have some good pay offs, but as a whole I struggled to connect with the events at hand. For the amount of time we spend researching the expedition crew, we learn disappointingly little about them, and while Norah’s story was interesting, I felt as though it failed to carry a full narrative, and we should’ve had more investment with the other characters.

Norah as a focal point is perhaps the narrative's biggest weakness. The characterization of her is solid and the acting great, but her writing really ruins the subtext in a lot of moments. Norah serves as an exposition machine in a lot of scenes, it's painfully obvious in the opening and only continues to be a bother as the story progresses. There's a strong sense of “tell don’t show” as everything is meticulously explained and no revelations are granted to the player of their own volition. Considering Norah’s dialogue is such a large chunk of this game, it's a shame how more often than not it was a large hindrance on the experience.

Favourite Moment: Finding The Lady Shannon, it’s a delightfully creepy chapter full of secrets and the first proper dive into the supernatural wonders of the island, and the piano puzzle was my favourite one in the game.

There's some impressive work here and definitely the signs of a good developer in the making. Call of the Sea is a beautiful game, but it needed a fair amount of fine tuning to become a true classic.

Not a bad game, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s a soft no for me.

(+) I liked the island setting, archeology/explorer vibes, and narration. The journal the main character uses to help solve puzzles is very well-designed and clearly arranged. I also loved the scribbling sound every time you find a clue. Putting the story of the lost expedition team together was fun.

(-) Even though I did expect a slow game, the walking speed was exhausting. Imagine a game with item capacity limit and the painful slow walk you get – that speed! “Running” didn’t help much, either. The explorer vibes I liked so much got lost at some point, too. I enjoyed the first two chapters. Chapter 3 was visually too dark (I couldn’t see much), and Chapter 4 was okay. After that, it took a weird turn for me. I stayed for the interesting main plot (finding my husband), but solving puzzles felt like a chore to push the story further. It was also too obvious in which direction the story was heading. Yet I expected more at the end: Unanswered questions and a kinda meh ending.

Call of the Sea 通关留念！8/10，推荐打折入手。
惯例先说优点（尽量不剧透）：
美术，卡通渲染画面和光影一流，随手截图都跟画一样精美；3D音效掉san效果绝佳，很有代入感，独处却仿佛有人在耳畔窃窃私语；故事很感人，两个结局看完给我看哭了，这什么绝美爱情故事，是我甘愿吃的狗粮TAT.

还有最重要的一个优点！steam页面上完全没有拿“克苏鲁”作为噱头，但这确实是洛夫克拉夫特式游戏。一开始我以为是我coc脑想多了，但游戏里四处都有暗示，而且基本到中期就能看出来，女主为什么会有这种“病”了。而且虽然有克系元素，但游戏中没有jump scare,也不血腥，这点其实特别好……因为克苏鲁神话其实最重要的是“对不可名状的恐惧”，jump scare和血腥这都太浮于表面、太轻浮了，Call of the Sea 很好地阐述了这一点，这也是为什么它的“克味儿”这么重了。而且，现在多数洛夫克拉夫特式游戏都喜欢搞恐怖血腥或者打怪升级，但Call of the Sea另辟蹊径，讲述了一段两难全的爱情，相较于那些英雄主义，和玩家生活更贴近，更容易情感带入。

演出也非常棒，尤其是后面水下有一段，一直让我想起迪士尼和环球影城……而且这游戏我直播的时候，被问了两次是不是《艾迪芬奇》那个开发组的新作，可想而知这个画面和演出质感。

最后有两个结局，要玩家自己做选择，选择女主和男主今后的道路……两个我都看了，直接给我看哭了。而且根据你选择的结局，最后的片尾曲、一小部分台词和桌上摆的照片都会不一样，就很细心。

缺点：
我被Steam评价骗了，别人说谜题不难，我觉得应该这么理解：谜题设计思路不难，但是想解开，难。

这个游戏有很多大型场景解谜，需要你一直跑来跑去，还有一些解谜则必须要自己动手画出来才能怎么解（难道是因为女主是美术老师，所以故意这么安排的？我也不知道）……总之很麻烦，尤其是前者，一不小心漏掉了一个线索，就得到处去找，女主因为身体不好走路也比较慢，卡关的话真得会卡很久。

最后有两个迷题还是靠弹幕帮我解的，热心观众还帮我画了示意图，其实我还是有点没懂（解谜的原理我自己推理出来了，但我还是叠不出来需要的图案，麻了）。

第一人称引发的3D晕眩在所难免，尤其这游戏为了模拟步行还做了颠簸感，球球你不要再晃了啊.jpg

后面有一大段水下剧情，如果你有深海恐惧症的话，大概会玩不下去（……），但是如果没有的话，就只会觉得“好美啊！”

叙事上，最后的转折来得特别突然，这个转折的唯一解释就是“女主觉得自己很了解她老公了”……挺唐突的，虽然也解释得过去，但反正我看那个○○的形状真得看不出是○○……其他都还挺好。

Time:
Around 5h for a full story, maybe 8-10 to get all the achievements.

Story:
Same old searching for your loved one, stumble on some ancient civilization, discover yourself, etc

Gameplay:
Walk around, backtracking can be tedious at times, look at stuff, puzzles which are not so intuitive and involve a lot of guessing.

Graphics:
Nice.

Sound:
Nice.

Overall:
I hate the main protagonist's voice and all the comments she makes. Puzzles are very dumb (or could be that I am very dumb also) . But the game looks lovely and has his own charm.
Worth it full price? No.
50% off? Maybe.
6/10, was a relaxing playthrough.

Call of the Sea es un notable juego de puzles que tiene lugar en una paradisíaca isla de la Polinesia, en los años 30 del siglo pasado. Cuenta ♥♥♥ una atractiva trama romántica enmarcada en la preciosa cultura del Pacífico Sur.

Gráficamente está muy conseguido, recreando a las mil maravillas escenarios variados y muy coloridos. En cuanto al audio, cuenta ♥♥♥ muy buenas voces y sonidos (aunque, siendo un juego español, se echa en falta el doblaje al castellano).

Jugablemente es un walking simulator ♥♥♥ puzles, algo habitual del género. Si bien los puzles empiezan siendo demasiado asequibles, luego van ganando algo de dificultad y, pese a que en ningún momento llegan a ser difíciles, consiguen al menos ser interesantes.

En resumen, creo que si te gusta el género de los puzles o las historias de misterio, es una muy buena opción. Personalmente, me ha parecido mejor de lo que esperaba.

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Call of the Sea 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : MacNeill

Call of the Sea 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : MacNeill

Call of the Sea 

Une capture d'écran de Call of the Sea

Par : MacNeill

I love it when the hand of the creator is clearly felt in the game, his desire to acquaint the player with something unknown. "Call of the Sea" is a very striking representative of just such games, and also embarks on a difficult path of careful handling of the worlds and Lovecraft's mythology. This is not to say that the game is perfect, I didn’t like a few of the puzzles, but most of the time you have an incredibly pleasant feeling. The vibrant nature of Polynesia, where fate throws our heroine, Nora, compares favorably with the usual entourage of Innsmouth and Arkham, constantly exploited in games based on the books of the famous writer. The writers very subtly managed to recreate the feeling of a real adventure - you constantly feel like a discoverer of something new, gradually the secrets of the past and the future are revealed in front of you, the monumental buildings make you stop breathing, and the plot constantly keeps you in suspense.

This is much more of a puzzle game than a walking simulator, there is very little aimless wandering and admiring the scenery. Most of the time you research, trying to find clues to solve the riddles, which abound here. The complexity of the puzzles varies quite dramatically, some will have to work very hard, but each has a clear and understandable solution. The plot is quite touching and sad, as if some kind of seal of doom hangs over the characters, the darkness of which contrasts even more with the local sunny landscapes. The main character is very easy to empathize, she is charming and interesting, with a lively character and emotions. The game is full of these very emotions, but does not allow them to overflow, but competently places accents in the narrative. Pleased with the large amount of collectible material that more fully reveals the story, and the ability to replay the chapters to find the missing plot details.

A vivid journey that once again reminds us how important it is to recreate the spirit of adventure in an adventure game, which will make the player forget about where he is for several hours, surrendering to the wave of blue ocean waves and the chirping of parrots.

Enjoyed this little game. Additional kudos to devs for writing good female character, not Mary Sue or STRONG WOMYN THAT NEED NO MAN.

游戏剧情非常之棒，解谜难度恰到好处。
我做了一个剧情+解谜的完整通关录像，没时间玩又想看剧情的，可以点下面链接。
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GT4y1z7Bt/

A beautiful entry into the walking sim genre, leaning heavily into its Firewatch influences but with more focus on Myst-style environmental puzzles.

The way the story is delivered through monologue and found notes is sadly pretty tired by this point and isn't as well written as its predecessors, but the developers are firing on all cylinders and delivered a very high quality first title.

It's worth playing if you're an adventure game fan looking for an immersive sim 'next gen' feeling puzzle game, with gorgeous artwork and immersive soundscape, you'll feel pulled into the game world.

Looking forward to seeing more from this team!

Uuuuu i loved the story so much, especially the end. I wish some of the puzzles weren't so hard though since they kind of distracted me from the story. I would still recommend it, and maybe re-play it someday. :) 9/10

Если меня спросят, чего за последние пять лет вышло больше - симуляторов ходьбы или игр по мотивам произведений Г.Ф. Лавкрафта, то я вряд ли смогу сходу ответить. А вот есть меня спросить, сколько в этом списке будет хороших проектов, то тут особо долго думать не придётся - для подсчёта хватит пальцев одной руки.
И одно могу сказать точно - для Call of the Sea на этой руке палец точно найдется. Потому что это одновременно и хороший симулятор ходьбы, и хороший фанфик по Лавкрафту.

Иронично, но при этом Call of the Sea не предлагает ничего оригинального в обоих категориях. Всё, что здесь есть, вы так или иначе видели в других играх подобного жанра и тематики. Но - лишь здесь всё это реализовано со вкусом и чувством стиля.

Взять сюжет: героиня с тёмным прошлым в поисках пропавшего мужа отправляется на неотмеченный на картах остров, скрывающий тайны древней цивилизации. Сколько раз у "помотивщиков" Лавкрафта встречалась подобная фабула? Миллион. Подводные боги, рыболюди, древние затонувшие города, галлюцинации и голоса в голове - хоть что-то из этого кажется вам оригинальным? Едва ли, ведь в играх всё это уже давно стало не менее избитым клише, чем, например, зомби. Тем не менее каждый из перечисленных пунктов обстоятельно реализован в Call of the Sea.

Но удивительным образом ни одно клише здесь не напрягает, всё на своём месте.
Всё дело в подходе: Call of the Sea не является хоррором от слова "совсем". Тут много мистики, тут проскакивают довольно мрачные локации и описываются не самые приятные события. Но игра совершенно не пытается пугать. Там, где прочие фанфикрайтеры просто суют игроку в лицо тентакли, называя это лавкрафтовским ужасом, создатели CotS увлекают его лором и рассказывают интересную историю отдельно взятого острова с подачей в стиле телевизионных развлекательных передач о путешествиях.
Здешний остров - это не хтонический ад с ктулху и "фхтагнами", это скорее солнечный курорт, скрещенный с аттракционами в духе Диснейленда. Тут всегда светло, тут ничто не угрожает твоей жизни и не подгоняет вперёд. Игра развлекает, а не угнетает. Это по сути иной, нетипичный взгляд на творчество Лавкрафта. Который при этом не ломает никаких канонов - история гармонично вписывается в книжную вселенную и щедро сыпет фансервисными отсылками на разные произведения Говарда Филлипса.
Но главная заслуга Call of the Sea даже не в бережном отношении к первоисточнику, а в том, что даже без оглядки на него здешний сюжет представляет немалый интерес. Под маской авантюрного приключения про пропавшую на таинственном острове экспедицию (по следам которой мы и пройдем) скрывается трогательная история об искренней и чистой любви двух разлученных людей, и том, на какие жертвы они готовы идти друг ради друга. Игра скупа на постановку и сюжетные повороты, но за счет потрясающей озвучки и проникновенной музыки пробивает на эмоции не хуже, чем какие-нибудь Valiant Hearts или What Remains of Edith Finch. Всплакнуть на финальных титрах тут отнюдь не возбраняется, ведь под конец игры ты действительно привязываешься к персонажам и охотно разделяешь их переживания.

С геймплеем, надо заметить, Call of the Sea проделывает схожий финт - оказывается не тем, чем кажется поначалу. Первые минут 15 игра притворяется 234-м по счёту стандартным симулятором ходьбы, не требующим от вас ничего, кроме чтения записок и брождения по живописным локациям под закадровые монологи главгероя.
А потом вам предлагают решить головоломку. Далее ещё одну. И ещё. И вот где-то на третьем паззле приходит внезапное осознание - перед нами же классическая адвенчура от первого лица в духе олдскульных Myst! Понятное дело, что сабж более динамичен, линеен и не настолько запутан. Но сама концепция узнаётся без труда. Мы приходим на новую локацию, - на первый взгляд большую и нелинейную, но на самом деле довольно компактную - тыкаемся во все её углы, читаем все записки, внимательно записываем во внутриигровой дневник всю найденную информацию, а затем методично думаем, как её применить в прохождении глобальной головоломки, вокруг которой построен конкретный уровень.
Играется это гораздо интереснее, чем звучит, по одной простой причине: загадки действительно удались. Call of the Sea это первая за довольно долгое время игра, которая не держит игрока за идиoтa. Очень даже наоборот - она бросает вашим мозгам ощутимый вызов, заставляя посидеть и подумать над конкретным паззлом. Именно посидеть и именно подумать, т.к. далеко не каждая загадка тут проходится с наскоку, и примерно раз в полчаса вам обязательно придётся залезть в дневник, внимательно изучить все найденные подсказки и попытаться логически их проанализировать.
При этом нельзя сказать, что игра прямо-таки зубодробительно сложна - на самом деле, если разобраться, решения головоломок элементарны. Ирония в том, что оказуаленные бродилки последних лет настолько отучили нас от необходимости в чём-то разбираться, что Call of the Sea с её паззлами воспринимается как натуральное откровение - тут искренне интересно докапываться до разгадок, а успех дарит не меньший экстаз, чем победа над сложным боссом в каком-нибудь Dark Souls.
Что немаловажно, игра не пытается душнить: наряду с масштабными многоступенчатыми паззлами тут встречаются загадки попроще и полаконичнее. Разнообразием также не обделили, никаких самоповторов. Откровенно поругать, пожалуй, стоит лишь пару головоломок в середине игры, где авторы (или, возможно, локализаторы) слишком уж расплывчато формулируют конечную задачу и заставляют игрока гадать, чего же игра от него хочет. Подсматривать в прохождение бывает не зазорно.

А ещё менее зазорно будет глазеть на окружение. Скажу больше - этим тут стоит заниматься в первую очередь, ведь игра фантастически красива. У художников и левел-дизайнеров, воплотивших на экране все эти пляжи, джунгли и древние храмы, явно золотые руки, потому что с пейзажей Call of the Sea можно натурально рисовать картины, а затем вывешивать их в Лувре. Впечатление отлично дополняет и минималистично-мультяшный визуальный стиль в духе Firewatch, благодаря которому локации выглядят как-то особенно приятно и лампово - ты буквально ощущаешь себя на пятизвёздочном курорте и постоянно жалеешь, что нельзя просто протянуть руку и попасть в прекрасный мир по ту сторону монитора.

С поездкой на отдых эту игру, в общем-то, и хочется сравнить. Море, пальмы, солнце, глубоководные загадки и в меру эмоциональная история - перед вами идеальное летнее приключение, которое пусть и не может похвастаться оригинальностью, но со своими штампами работает грамотнее любого современного аналога. Это, конечно, не жанровое откровение, но определённо одна из лучших адвенчур за последние годы. Особенно за такую-то смешную цену.
Проходить мимо категорически не рекомендую, тем более летом, когда лучшей обстановки и настроения для подобных игр просто не найти.

Zapraszam na moją stronę kuratora Steam. Na pewno znajdziesz tam coś dla siebie.

*imienia Norah w języku polskim nie powinno się odmieniać przez przypadki, co dla mnie nie brzmi zbyt naturalnie w niektórych zdaniach i dlatego - wbrew powyższej regule - poza mianownikiem odmieniam to imię tak, jakby główna bohaterka nazywała się Nora

Może morze wcale nie jest tam.
Może morze jest tu, w sercu twym.
Może zabierzesz mnie łodzią nad sam zachwyt
na twej twarzy,
nad twe szczęście co kołysze się wśród fal.
Może morze[wiersze.kobieta.pl] w duszy twej gra,
a w ustach czujesz jego smak.

Call of the Sea to bardzo udany debiut hiszpańskiego studia Out of the Blue Games. Dlaczego tak uważam, pomimo iż nie zakochałam się w tej grze (a trochę na to liczyłam, co przyznaję ze szczerością), dowiecie się dzięki dalszej części tekstu. Mieszkający na Półwyspie Iberyjskim twórcy mogą poszczycić się już nominacją do tegorocznej nagrody BAFTA w kategorii Debiut (o wyróżnienie produkcja powalczy między innymi z tytułami takimi jak Carrion czy Röki).

O samym studiu nie jestem w stanie dużo napisać, bo jest młode i w miarę neutralnie prowadzi swoje media społecznościowe, udostępniając standardowe rzeczy dotyczące swojego pierwszego dzieła (artykuły, recenzje, zrzuty ekranu). Powstało dzięki grupie doświadczonych deweloperów gier, którzy przepracowali ileś lat w różnych firmach i zdecydowali się na połączenie sił, by móc pracować nad własnymi pomysłami. To doświadczenie, jakim się chwalą, z pewnością wpłynęło na ostateczny kształt Call of the Sea i dostarczaną przez grę jakość. Wśród wartości Out of the Blue Games wymieniane są transparentność i powolny (zdrowy) rozwój związane z szacunkiem do każdego pracownika i jego osobistego życia. Celem grupy jest tworzenie gier jakościowych, mocno skupiających się na detalach. Ich historie oraz światy muszą być spójne i żywe, by jak najbardziej podobały się graczom. Lubię takie ludzkie podejście, zorientowanie na drugiego człowieka, więc jeśli nie są to założenia na pokaz, to gratuluję.

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Lata 30. XX wieku. Główną bohaterką Call of the Sea jest Norah Everhart. Kobieta cierpi na nieznaną chorobę powoli wyniszczającą organizm, a jej dłonie są pokryte nieregularnymi plamkami, co ze względów estetycznych zmusza Norę do ciągłego noszenia rękawiczek. Henry Everhart, badacz i mąż Nory, zmartwiony pogarszającym się stanem zdrowia swej ukochanej, organizuje kilkuosobową ekspedycję na wyspę położoną gdzieś na Oceanie Spokojnym. Mężczyzna sądzi, że jest w stanie odnaleźć remedium i odzyskać to, co nieuchronnie wymyka się spomiędzy jego palców - szczęście i życie Nory. Niestety wyprawa kończy się niepowodzeniem, a przynajmniej tak podejrzewa Norah, gdy przez miesięcy nie otrzymuje od Henry'ego żadnego listu. Otrzymuje za to paczkę z Tahiti bez danych nadawcy zawierającą zdjęcie męża z niejasnym dopiskiem, starożytny artefakt wyglądający jak nóż oraz klucz z inicjałem C.W. Norah domyśla się, że nie może dłużej zwlekać i postanawia podążyć śladami Henry'ego, a pierwszym przystankiem w tej podróży jest właśnie Tahiti. Stamtąd kobieta trafia na wyspę oddaloną na wschód o 74 mile i jest to miejsce, w którym rozgrywa się akcja gry.

Absolutnie urokliwe i dopieszczone w każdym calu zakątki cieszą oko swą egzotycznością i klimatami inspirowanymi twórczością H.P. Lovecrafta. Rozgrywka polega na eksploracji i rozwiązywaniu łamigłówek środowiskowych skonstruowanych przez... no właśnie, przez kogo? Moim głównym zarzutem wobec zagadek jest ich nierówność. Niektóre z nich rzeczywiście wymagają dłuższego zastanowienia i połączenia w głowie kropek, inne są w miarę proste, ale i pokuszono się o umieszczenie zadań naprawdę trudnych do zrozumienia. Momentami brakowało mi jakiegoś wyrazistego punktu zaczepienia albo dodatkowej informacji od twórców. Po około godzinie myślenia nad jedną z zagadek skapitulowałam i wsparłam się solucją w formie wideo. Dodam, że nigdy nie czuję upodlenia z powodu korzystania z tego typu materiałów. Warto szanować swój czas i nie siłować się z czymś na siłę godzinami.

Norah, jako baczna obserwatorka, prowadzi notatnik, a zapiski wraz z rysunkami przydają się do szukania rozwiązań. Dostęp do nich jest łatwy i możliwy w każdej chwili, wystarczy wcisnąć TAB. Drugą część zeszytu stanowi pamiętnik kobiety uzupełniany wraz z postępem gry. Ponieważ stale podążamy śladami wyprawy Henry'ego, co rusz natrafiamy na niepozbierane do kupy obozowiska i pozostałości w postaci notatek, rozmaitego sprzętu oraz zdjęć. Wszystko to buduje w głowie Nory obraz tego, co wydarzyło się podczas pobytu jej męża na wyspie, a w większości są to nieprzyjemne i trudne do zaakceptowania sytuacje rodem z pozaziemskiego wymiaru.

Pobyt na tajemniczej wyspie to dla Nory okazja do odkrycia swej prawdziwej tożsamości. Nie dość, że tam zaczyna się czuć znacznie lepiej fizycznie, nawiedzają ją wizje związane z dawnymi mieszkańcami urokliwego zakątka i krwawa historia tego ludu. W połączeniu z naprawdę przepiękną stroną wizualną otrzymujemy przyjemną w odbiorze grę przygodową z najprostszym możliwym sterowaniem i całkiem dobrze rozpisaną historią, chociaż niezbyt zaskakującą. Do pewnego momentu brnęłam w tę opowieść bez dreszczyku emocji, lecz przyznam, że końcówką byłam dość oczarowana i cieszyłam się, że w tak liniowo prowadzonej fabule pozwolono graczowi na dokonanie wyboru, w jaki sposób mają się potoczyć dalsze losy Nory.

Głosu Norze użyczyła Cissy Jones Aktorstwo głosowe jest bardzo istotne w grach narracyjnych dumnie prezentowanych przez tag "bogata historia", bo w dobrym i profesjonalnym wykonaniu jeszcze mocniej ożywia prezentowaną historię i przybliża odbiorcę do losów fikcyjnych postaci. A Cissy Jones jest rewelacyjna w tym, co robi. Świetnie wypadła jako Delilah w Firewatch, niezwykle wiarygodnie wcieliła się w rolę Joyce Price z Life is Strange. Ma na swoim koncie mnóstwo mniejszych i większych sukcesów, pracuje przy znanych produkcjach. Jednak jako Norah niespecjalnie mnie do siebie przekonała. Nie potrafiłam szczerze polubić tej bohaterki, jej wyważonego tonu i niepokojącego braku emocji w momentach, które większości osób zmroziłyby krew w żyłach. Odnosiłam wrażenie, jakby sama aktorka nie do końca wczuła się w Norę, choć jest ona profesjonalistką i zapewne się mylę. Mimo wszystko nie pomogła w zapałaniu sympatią do protagonistki.

Call of the Sea to gra piękna i bardziej zachwycałam się widokami, niż przeżywałam rozterki Nory. Nie do końca o to mi chodziło, ba, wiązałam z tym tytułem większe nadzieje, co nie znaczy, że nie jest to gra niegodna polecenia. Klimaty rodem z mitologii Cthulhu w jakimś stopniu mnie fascynują i uważam je za interesujące, ale jednocześnie nie jestem ich wielbicielką i być może to wpłynęło na mniejsze zaangażowanie w wydarzenia z gry. I tak, Call of the Sea ma w sobie więcej z nostalgicznej historii miłosnej aniżeli z horroru.

Here is the problem with Call of the Sea: Everything about the game is just not that great. It's not bad by any means. It's just not great.

The story telling is lacking. The main characters behaviour as well as their voice acting is a bit silly and exhausting. The graphics (probably the strongest part of the game) are just a tad lifeless and lack animation.

The direction is not quite right: The character might point out things, that I simply have not spotted or that, even after having them pointed out, elude me. Or you do/discover stuff in an order that the makers of the game did not anticipate, which then leads to clearly off voice lines that break the immersion (for example your character might get very excited by a piece of evidence, whose discovery should have preceded an event, that already occurred).

The puzzles are okay. If you have puzzle experience do not expect to be particularly challenged. Sometimes the controls get in the way. Game length is added by having to do legwork while trying to solve puzzles. Compared to a game like The Room (which might be top of genre when it comes to puzzles) this becomes very apparent. This mix of works okay in a game like Zelda, where the Action/Adventure/RPG portion fills in the gaps nicely – but this game is a puzzler. There is a dust of exploration about this game but meh. Nah. It's really not.

I understand how this came to be: All of the components take a lot of work/time and indie development is very time constraint. Call of the Sea tries to do a lot of things, and, again, it's not bad at anything – good even – but excelling at something is really important. I feel that Call of the Sea, unfortunately, does not.

A Great Lovecraft Story.


멋진 러브크래프트 스토리.

Очень приятная игра! Чудесные пейзажи и локации, любопытная история, в которую органично вплетены головоломки. Загадки не хардкорны, и оставляют приятное послевкусие решенной задачки. Играла на английском языке - приятное оформление путевого дневника Норы и хорошая озвучка. Письма от мужа были как маленькие фильмы внутри игры.
Рекомендую тем, кто хочет приятно провести время, поразмяв голову, не чувствуя себя при этом тугодумом, и наслаждаясь историей.

Call of the Sea, muhteşem grafiklerle bezeli, ilginç ve özgün bir hikayeye sahip ve görece kısa süren, film gibi bir macera oyunu.

Öncelikle bu oyunu önermek ve önermemek arasında büyük bir ikileme düştüm. Sebebini incelemenin ilerleyen kısımlarında anlayacaksınız. Vakit kaybetmeden incelemeye geçelim.

Oyunun gerçekten ilgi çekici ve oldukça özgün bir hikayesi var. Ana karakterimiz Norah, henüz çaresi bulunmamış ve onu yavaş ve acılı bir ölüme sürüklemekte olan nadir bir hastalığa sahip. Bu hastalığın izleri ellerinde de görülebiliyor. Harry ise Norah'ya şifa bulmak amacıyla yollara düşen karakterimiz, Norah'ın kocası. Harry uzun süre eve dönmeyince, Norrah daha fazla bekleyemiyor ve kendine gelen gizemli paketin de yardımıyla Harry'yi bulmak için yollara düşüyor. Bu yolda karşısına çıkan mekanlar ve olaylar da hikayeyi oluşturuyor. Devamını oynayarak görmeniz lazım.

Oyunun grafikleri muhteşem, Unreal Engine ile yapılmış. Güzel bir monitör ve performanslı bir bilgisayarla görsel bir şölene dönüşmesi işten bile değil. Ancak bazı yazılımsal sorunlar mevcut. İyi bir bilgisayarınız dahi olsa gerçekten performanslı bir makina değilse sıkıntı çekebilirsiniz. Ben Ryzen 5 3600 ile RX5600XT ekran kartını kullanmama rağmen bazı noktalarda çok fazla stutter yaşadım. FPS yüksek olmasına rağmen görüntü akıcı değildi, anlık takılmalar çok fazlaydı. Bilgisayarımın sıcaklık ve diğer performans değerlerine baktığım zaman da anormal bir durum göremedim, yani sıkıntı bilgisayarda değil oyundaydı.

Grafik dışında da yazılımsal birkaç sıkıntısı var. En az 3 kere alt+f4 ile kapatıp yeniden açmam gerekti çünkü bazı noktalarda dondu. Tabi bu oyunu bitirmeye engel değil çünkü otomatik kayıt özelliği çok iyi çalışıyor ve sık sık kayıt yapıyor. Kendiniz de istediğiniz noktada kayıt alıp devam edebiliyorsunuz. Özellikle son sahnede kayıt almayı unutmayın zira oyunun muhtemel iki sonunu da görmek isteyebilirsiniz.

Oyunun müzikleri gerçekten üst seviye. Böyle bir oyun için bile aşırı iyi. Tamam, bu çok kötü bir oyun değil ama bir Hollywood filmi de değil. Ancak müzikler Hollywood seviyesinde. Bu oyunda en beğendiğim nokta müzikler oldu.

Müziklerin yanında seslendirmeler de çok iyi. Zaten Norrah'yı daha önce Firewatch'tan tanıdığımız "Delilah" karakterini seslendiren kadın ses sanatçısı seslendiriyor. Ana karakterimiz sürekli konuşmasa daha iyi olurdu belki ama böyle bir atmosferde yalnız hissetmek de kötü olurdu. Tek sıkıntısı incelediğimiz notlarda daha notları okumadan karakterin konuşmaya başlaması. Bir dur da okuyalım :D

Buraya kadar çoğunlukla oyunun güçlü taraflarını aktarmaya çalıştım ancak bu oyunun malesef çok kötü bir tarafı var ve bu da oyunun asıl büyük parçasını oluşturuyor. Evet, o parça "son derece düşüncesiz yapılmış bulmaca sistemi". Normal şartlarda bu konuda deneyimli bir oyuncuyum, The Room gibi mantık çerçevesine oturtabileceğimiz oyunları çatır çatır geçerim ancak bu oyunun bulmacaları o kadar rastgele ve uğraştırıcı ki, bir noktada "Bu kadar güzel bir oyunu nasıl böyle rezil ettiniz?" dedim kendi kendime. Bulmacaları gerçekten çok kötü, hiçbir mantık çerçevesine oturmuyor ve aradaki mesafeler yüzünden çözmesi uzun sürüyor. Çözümler fazlasıyla rastgele ve bu konuda böyle düşünen tek ben değilim. Oyundaki tüm ipuçlarını tüketip bulmacaları hiçbir mantık çerçevesine oturtamayınca çözümüne bakmaya karar verdim. Yorumlarda da herkes aynı fikirde. Hatta videoları çekenler bile "Neden böyle olduğunu bilmiyorum ama böyle çözülüyor." diyorlar birçok nokta için. Gerçekten, bu kadar muhteşem bir yapımı bu kadar dandik bulmacalarla nasıl mahvettiniz ya? "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter"da da aynı saçmalık vardı. ( incelememe bakabilirsiniz ). Her şey çok güzel, hatta bu oyunlardan beklenmeyecek kadar güzel ama bulmacalar da bir o kadar kötü. Bulmacaların kötülüğü kadar ipuçlarının kötülüğü de önemli zira ipuçları hiçbir yere götürmüyor. Oyunu oynamadan videoları izleseniz de geçemezsiniz zira ipuçlarını bulmadan oyun ilerlemiyor :D Bulmaca ve ipucu mekanikleri gerçekten olmamış, oyunun güzelliğine çok büyük bir darbe vurmuş.


Bulmacalar hakkında daha fazla şey yazabilirim ama birazını da kendiniz görüp yorumlayın isterim. O yüzden daha fazla uzatmadan oyunun artıları ve eksilerine geçiyorum.

Artıları / Eksileri

Artıları,
+Muhteşem grafikler ve canlı renk paleti.
+İlginç ve özgün hikaye. Gerçekten özgün, daha önce oynadığım hiçbir oyuna benzemiyor.
+Film gibi bir deneyim, kısa oyun süresi (6-7 saat)
+Kendi sınıfının çok çok üstünde müzik kalitesi.
+Kaliteli seslendirmeler.
+Kayıt sistemi. Otomatik kayıt var ve çok iyi çalışıyor. Oyun sonunda istediğiniz bölüme geçebiliyorsunuz ve ilerlemeniz de yazıyor.

Eksileri,
-Berbat ötesi ve rastgele bulmacalar. Gerçekten nasıl bu kadar kötü olabilir anlamıyorum.
-Hiçbir yere götürmeyen ipuçları.
-İyi bilgisayar gereksinimi.
-Birkaç yazılımsal hata.
-Ana karakterin, biz notları incelerken daha bir şey okuyamadan konuşmaya başlaması.

Sonuç olarak yine grafik, hikaye, seslendirme ve müzikler açısından muhteşem olan bir oyunun berbat ötesi bulmacalarla rezil edilişini görüyoruz. Çok büyük hayal kırıklığı. Yine de siz bir bakın, zam gelmeyen nadir oyunlardan olduğu için sonraki indirimde alınabilir.

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Call of the Sea
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Call of the Sea is a unique story-driven, puzzle-adventure experience. Call of the Sea’s world revolves around Norah Everhart and her journey to uncover the truth behind her husband’s expedition to an uncharted island.

As the Call of the Sea’s story progresses, Norah will discover more about herself, her incurable illness, the mysteries of the island, and her husband’s unfortunate expedition.

Plot: its 1934, and Norah Everhart is on a voyage to meet her husband, Henry. Norah is very excited; it has been a while since Henry left on his expedition.

Henry’s expedition was of great importance to him; Norah is unwell, and her symptoms are getting worst day by day. He is optimistic that he will find some sort of answer to cure his beloved Norah.

Shortly after the captain called, “Miss Norah, we have arrived,” Norah ventures out alone to reunite with her beloved. But to her dismay, she finds an abandoned camp, with no clue about the whereabouts of Henry and/or the crew.

Something has surely gone wrong, as a letter and a note from Henry indicate. Hoping that Henry and his team are all right, Norah decides to move inland. As she starts to move inland, she’s blown away by the island's beauty; she discovers local manmade structures, temples, puzzles, and complex mechanisms.

As Norah progresses through the island, she discovers more and more about the mysterious island and how all this is related to her illness. She discovers a black substance, which Henry is calling black OoZe.

Henry can’t really explain what this substance is. It is surely something magical, or even evil; the doctor interacted with this black OoZe, and he soon perished, as did the others.

She starts to uncover all the mysteries and the fate of the expedition.

Norah finds notes, drawings, and letters by Henry and the other crew members, which lead her to the answer, puzzle by puzzle, piece by piece.

Henry was right all along! He knew he would find something of great importance here, something that would surely save his beloved, even if he would need to sacrifice it all.

Gameplay: The gameplay of Call of the Sea greatly compliments the amazing and creative story of the game. The gameplay is simple and effective and allows the player to take his/her time to explore the beautiful island and all its features.

The basic WASD is slow and elegant, although it felt annoyingly slow sometimes when I was done exploring a particular area, or if I was revisiting it, which you have to do often in this game.

The game also features a diary, which logs Norah’s adventure, her discoveries, and important details throughout the game.

Norah also draws down clues as she discovers or goes through new areas, which later play an important role in solving the puzzles.

Discovery and problem-solving play the most important role in this game. The game insists that the players go through every area to explore, collect clues, drawdown important details, and find notes and letters from the expedition.

However, there’s really not much to explore. The playable area seems large (it certainly gives that impression), whereas in actuality, you play through a limited area. Finding clues and puzzle pieces is easy, which in the case of this game, is good and done very well.

Voice acting and narration: Both voice-overs for Norah and Henry were very well done and gave the story a great flavor. So did the narrations by Norah, which were consistently happening throughout the game, and at no point of my playthrough did I think that it was getting too repetitive or boring. Kudos to the actors who played these roles for doing a great job.

Puzzles: Now let us get to the main course, the puzzles. Call of the Sea nailed it when it comes to puzzles, in my opinion; the game features a good balance of difficulty.

Puzzles don’t have to be stupidly difficult to be enjoyable; well-balanced, well-placed and a good variety of puzzles has a far better outreach. And Call of the Sea did just that!

The game features a good number and a good variety of puzzles, and each is well-designed and well-placed. Some were easy to solve yet hard to get clues from, while some were hard to solve and needed some close attention to figure out. What they all have in common is that they are not too difficult to solve, and are very rewarding for those who like to explore the world and discover all the details, both in the open and hidden.

What did make the puzzles a bit tedious or annoying is the fact that the movement speed is rather slow, and you have to explore and revisit multiple locations to gets clues or discover all the hidden details.

World design: Absolutely gorgeous world design, full of different elements, colors, regions, structures, and many more.

I loved it how the devs designed and divided the island into regions with minor changes at a time, rather than just throwing the player right into a unique region without any transition. The slow buildup of different elements before transitioning into a brand new area or region is much appreciated.

Music and sound effects: A very well-put-together song features at the end of in this game; I absolutely love it! And it’s performed by the same actors who play Norah and Henry; they did a great job with the performance and gave the game an excellent touch.

As did the sound effects and background ambient noises. Right from the get-go, I was stunned to hear how well they implemented all those sound effects and ambient noises without getting in the way of narrations.

Considering all aspects of the game, Call of the Sea turned out to be a great indie title with a great touching story, voiced by a couple of talented actors, set on a beautiful island, with some great sound effects work.

However, I must mention some minor issues that I faced with the performance; although the game is not that demanding, it felt quite sluggish at times, with minor lags.

Positives:

+ Great Story
+ Beautifully designed world
+ Brilliant narration
+ Good music selection
+ Brain-tickling puzzles
+ A great exploration experience
+ Great art style

Negatives:

- Sluggish performance at times with minor lags
- Some clues and puzzles were not well explained
- No custom settings, only graphical presets

Help Norah Everhart in her search for the truth and for her beloved. Explore the mysterious island to uncover its secrets.
9/10


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An incredible game made by incredible people.

The puzzles are challenging yet accessible. The atmosphere is incredible and engaging, and the story so far looks incredible.

One of the best games of the year and a true successor to games like Myst.

Don't let the bright colors fool you, this is absolutely a Lovecraft game. It takes a lot of inspiration from the structure of Lovecraft's work as well as the content with an emphasis on atmosphere and slow reveal rather then more in your face horror. There are plenty of references and Easter eggs tucked into too.

The only slight nitpick I have is that sometimes, on PC, you need to adjust the graphics quality down to properly interact with an item.

Overall, a very enjoyable if not particularly long game. Perfect for a long evening. Especially one when the moon is full and things you never quite catch sight of keep throwing distorted shadows into your room as they pass.

This one kind of came out of left field for me. I'm a big fan of adventure/puzzle games, and I just happened to randomly see this on Steam. After playing it, despite the short playtime, I can wholeheartedly recommend it. The mild frustration that came from some of the puzzles being a bit obscure was easily forgiven when compared against an interesting and unique story that will take you to places you'll never expect. I really can't say anything bad about the game other than the fact that it's over. Grab it on sale if you aren't sure, but I was pleasantly surprised beyond my expectations.

Pros:
-Interesting story
-Beautiful art style/world
-Puzzle elements I haven't seen in other games
-Great voice acting

♥♥♥♥:
-A bit short
-Some puzzles can feel frustrating, but never impossible
-Climbing ladders and traversing the world can be tedious at times

Call of the Sea is a beautiful, well crafted, engrossing adventure game about a woman searching for her husband on a Polynesian island.
Although Lovecraftian, Call of the Sea doesn't really feature any horror, but what it does feature is a captivating story, incredible visuals, fantastic voice acting and some enjoyably challenging puzzles.

Truly, this was a joy from start to finish and I had a smile on my face the whole time. A wonderful way to round off 2020.
It might only last you 3-4 hours, but I'd definitely recommend this.

★ Worum geht’s? ★
>Call of the Sea< spielt in den 1930er Jahren. Wir begleiten Norah, die auf der Suche nach ihrem verschwundenen Mann und seiner Expedition ist. Die Suche führt sie auf eine geheimnisvolle und wunderschöne Insel im Südpazifik, auf der Rätsel gelöst und Geheimnisse entschlüsselt werden müssen.

★ Positiv ★
➝ interessante Story, schöne Liebesgeschichte
➝ wunderschöne Umgebung, es gibt viel zu entdecken
➝ knifflige und abwechslungsreiche Rätsel

★ Neutral ★
➝ ist ein recht kurzes Spielerlebnis (schätzungsweise ca. 10-11 Stunden, mit allen Errungenschaften)

★Weiterempfehlung! ★
Ein tolles, wenn auch recht kurzes, Spiel mit einer beeindruckenden Atmosphäre und einer tollen Story. Kann ich nur empfehlen, besonders, wenn man Rätsel und Abenteuer mag.

PS: Es wurde häufig von Bugs berichtet in anderen Bewertungen, dem kann ich mich (Stand März 2021) nicht anschließen. Ich hatte keinerlei Probleme und das Spiel lief bei mir sehr flüssig.
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I never write bad reviews but for this game I am. Started out great but I ran into a bug (among several) that wouldn't allow me to go any further. Sometimes that happens in games and I can usually get some kind of solution by contacting developers, which I did. ZERO RESPONSE to my query and I see that multiple other people have reported the same: developers have left us high and dry. It was too late to get a refund so I uninstalled it...but I'm writing today because I see they have an offer out to buy a Nora doll from their store and that just hit me wrong. So get this at your own risk but I advise reading all discussion topics first.

Visualmente es bellisimo, muy colorido, y la calidad grafica es bastante buena.
Es un juego de puzzles y desafios, bien para relajarse.

Lo recomiendo

A great story driven puzzle game set in the 1930s. Gorgeous graphics and a nice variety of puzzles without it becoming too taxing. I enjoyed taking screenshots as it's so pretty. The narration throughout the game is lovely too. It's quite a short game, it took me around 6 hours to finish, but then I went back to find some collectables I'd missed and complete some achievements. Highly recommended.

a short (5h) lighthearted Lovecraftian walking simulator with fun and somewhat challenging puzzles set in a beautiful island
my only problem with the game is that its really heavy on the gpu , even on medium settings the game stutter in some places and the gpu reached 81/82°C most of the time , they need to optimize it more or at least let people chose what graphical settings they want or not.
get it on sale
6/10

This is a VERY mid review with a LOT of complaints!

So let's get the good stuff out of the way, if you like walking sims with a light puzzle element, and appreciate great atmospheric vistas, levels, and interesting stories, this is definetely something to consider playing. The genre is underrepresented and I am happy that this game was quite successfull, because despite all the critizism I will lay out shortly, this game shows the work of a dedicated indie team with a lot of potential for future titles, which is why I am overall still giving it a recommendation.

That out of the way, here is what makes this game very frustrating to play:

Writing: Whilst the story itself is quite interesting the execution in writing is horrible. Our main character is just a walking talking exposition dump. She has very little personality, and that is not the fault of the actress, voice acting overall is fine for a game of this size. But just reading these lines as subtitles really hurts your head. Everything is so on the nose, gets repeated hundreds of times to the player, none of the jokes work, and in some scenes our main character will just keep talking forever, like reading out the summary of the last chapter so that we still remember everything. It gets annoying VERY! FAST!
I know they don't have the budget for big cutscenes but you can work around that. Show don't tell is a good rule for a reason. The game sets us on a hunt for a cure for a disease that we're never shown the consequences of! Like she's mentaly capable of solving puzzles and fit enough for this expedition but we're just supposed to believe that the spots on her arms are killing her?
A personal gripe here would be the ending: the plot twist just doesn't work because we're never shown that it's not actually her husband that died. The way the story presents this twist, is as if she just out of the blue decided that the whole thing was a bait n switch by her husband... like what??? The game didn't give us any evidence to believe that, she just does it because the script needs the plot to happen...

Puzzles: They are mediocre at best and most of the time not very well presented to the player. Like none of these are real brain twisters, but that doesn't mean that solving them should be expected from the player. Most of the time I looked up the solution and whilest that always sounded easy on paper, I never had the means to come to that conclusion. It's just poorly communicated to the player, and in one puzzle you're taking a note of an order of buttons, and I'm expected to read that order from bottom to top... what?
It's sad because the visual presentation of the puzzles always fits the level and the scenario we are currently in, but they are just so frustrating, artificially overcomplicated or just involve an unnecessary amount of backtracking. I also loved that level that followed a "power the generator puzzle" up with a "power the generator" puzzle, that made me chuckle.

That combined with slow movement, overall clunky traversal some minor bugs, it just makes this game unnecessarily frustrating. Again, I still liked a lot of things that I saw, and I am looking forward to playing future titles of this developer, but only if they improve on these things, because for a price tag of 20 bucks, especially right after I finished a game that did a better job at all of the above at a 10 Dollar price tag, this is really disappointing.

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Toda la información acerca de la historia del juego, en el caso de que sea indicada, pertenece a lo dicho en la descripción de la página de venta o es según comienza el juego. No es ningún spoiler.

Call of the Sea tiene una historia que mantiene la tensión constante sin dejar que se deje de jugar. La protagonista Norah
padece una extraña enfermedad que la está dejando más y más débil. Su marido, Henry, decidido a encontrar una cura, se embarca en una misión a una isla lejana dónde cree que podrá encontrar una cura.
Norah recibe un extraño paquete ♥♥♥ una nota de Henry, un extraño cuchillo y una llave ♥♥♥ unas iniciales que no reconoce.
Decidida a encontrar a su marido decide ir a la isla sola pase lo que pase.

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A partir de este momento el jugador irá descubriendo poco a poco durante el transcurso de una serie de capítulos la historia tanto de Norah, su enfermedad, y la desaparición de su marido mientras lee notas, encuentra fotografías y resuelve puzles de distinta índole mientras admira los bellos y, a veces, terroríficos entornos que la rodean.

Una historia muy bien desarrollada y escrita pero que en algunos momentos tiene errores de situación ya sea en algunas notas o en el entorno.

Aún pese a esto mantendrá al jugador queriendo seguir jugando para aprender más y más.


Los gráficos son soberbios llenos de color y casi acercándose a un estilo “cartoon”. Los brillos, el agua, los reflejos, absolutamente todo, pone en manifiesto el cariño que han puesto en este apartado sus desarrolladores.

Posee bastantes opciones gráficas para adaptarlo a distintos equipos, aunque en la opción de mejores gráficos exigirá un uso medio/alto a la GPU pese a su estilo "cartoon".

Los entornos acuáticos son muy hermosos llenos de su coral, peces en enormes áreas que harán sentir como si se estuviera en él mismo, una pena que el título no posea modo VR.


Call of the Sea tiene una banda sonora magistral, la cual puede ser obtenida en un DLC aparte. Una maravilla para los oídos en todo momento, teniendo pistas muy adecuadas en los lugares que Norah estará y en los puzles que tendrá que resolver.

Combinada ♥♥♥ los gráficos se tiene un título que todo jugador amante de las aventuras narrativas y los puzles debería tener.


La mecánica de Call of the Sea es similar a muchos otros títulos del mismo género. El jugador manejará a Norah en modo primera vista recorriendo la isla pudiendo girar la cámara en todas direcciones pudiendo admirar todos los bellos entornos (y lo cual será muy importante para resolver algunos puzles).

No se posee mapa ni brújula, pero tampoco hace falta. Tampoco tiene ninguna interfaz en pantalla por lo que no existe ningún elemento que disturbe al jugar.

Se podrá correr y nadar (algo de agradecer ya que Norah anda muy despacio por su enfermedad).
El jugador deberá interactuar ♥♥♥ múltiples objetos, leer notas y ver fotografías (momento en el que Norah dirá en voz alta sus pensamientos acerca del objeto) y resolver puzles.

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En este punto es dónde algo negativo del título hace aparición... la dificultad de muchos de sus puzles.
Si bien la dificultad va siendo progresiva en ellos, existen puzles muy simples, pero otros muy complicados dónde se obligará al jugador a tener que investigar la isla a fondo para encontrar las pistas o detalles que puedan hacer falta.

Sin embargo, muchos puzles poseen pistas que pueden confundir más que ayudar cuando no se conoce el puzle. Otros puzles necesitan descubrir muchas cosas en otros puzles para poder intentar entender el significado de todo ello.

Pese a que esto es un buen aliciente para los jugadores exigentes puede ser un problema importante a jugadores más casuales que pueden sentirse frustrados o no entender la lógica de un puzle.

Norah posee un cuaderno dónde irá apuntando todas las pistas que vaya encontrando al igual que los sucesos más importantes que lea de notas, vea u escuche. En el diario se pueden encontrar algunos errores (al menos en español) ♥♥♥ textos incorrectos en algún punto del mismo y algún número de un puzle.

Se puede encontrar atajos, a lo mejor de títulos tipo "souls", que permitirán moverse entre distintas partes del mapeado rápidamente, por desgracia esto no es así en un puzle que puede requerir varios intentos teniendo que ir de un punto a otro y la frustración que ello puede hacer sentir.

Existen objetos ocultos a ser encontrados, murales a ser leídos y algún "easter egg" por parte de los desarrolladores.

Posee un selector de capítulos, los cuales pueden ser rejugados en todo momento, y en los cuales se indica el número de notas que se han encontrado al igual que los objetos secretos, etcétera. Algo muy útil para los jugadores que quieran conseguir el 100% del título.

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La partida se graba automáticamente en determinados momentos, aunque se puede grabar manualmente si se desea.

Está en español subtitulado si se desea al igual que su interfaz está localizada perfectamente al español, también tiene soporte para mando (probado ♥♥♥ uno de XBOX360), al igual que logros de Steam (algunos requerirán volver a jugar los capítulos para encontrar los documentos que falten y/o los objetos secretos y murales al igual que realizar determinadas
acciones.)

El trabajo de la actriz que da voz a Norah es espectacular en todo momento.

PROS:

1. Muy buena historia que posee elementos de fantasía tipo Lovecraft.
   
2. Gráficos espectaculares.
   
3. Una banda sonora magistral pudiendo ser obtenida en un DLC.
   
4. Duración aceptable para un título de este género, 5 a 6 horas.
   
5. Gran cantidad de documentos a leer, murales, y fotografías a encontrar.
   
6. Objetos secretos y "easter egg".
   
7. En perfecto español, aunque ♥♥♥ voces en inglés.
   
8. El trabajo de la actriz que da voz a Norah es excelente.
   
9. Soporte para mando.
   
10. 2 finales.
    
11. 34 logros de Steam (algunos de los cuales requerirán jugar de nuevo algunos capítulos)

♥♥♥♥:

1. Algunos fallos en los textos del cuaderno y en alguna pista.
   
2. Incongruencia en puntos de la historia ♥♥♥ respecto a lo que se lee y/o ve (aunque no altera la experiencia ni la hace peor).
   
3. Algunos puzles tienen una dificultad elevada que, aunque será una delicia para los jugadores expertos en puzles para los casuales podrá ser frustrante.
   
4. En determinados puzles las pistas son confusas y/o dan un sentido un poco distinto a lo que la lógica pueda hacer pensar.
   
5. No tiene mucha re jugabilidad más allá de obtener todos los logros, algunos puzles podían haber tenido sus secuencias aleatorias entre partidas para hacerlo aún más desafiante.

CONCLUSION:

Call of the Sea es un buen título de narrativa ♥♥♥ puzles que recuerda a grandes títulos del género, ♥♥♥ unos gráficos excelentes y una banda sonora magistral. En español subtitulado y localizado, aunque ♥♥♥ voces en inglés. Muchos objetos que encontrar y coleccionar, 34 logros de Steam, secretos, y una historia que mantendrá al jugador queriendo saber más
y más.

Sin embargo, la elevada dificultad de muchos de sus puzles y en algunos casos pistas confusas en su significado pueden arruinar la experiencia a jugadores más casuales o no dichos en este tipo de títulos (y aun así a expertos podrán costarles).

No es un título para todo el mundo por lo anteriormente citado, pero conociendo esto y decidiendo aceptar el desafío hará pasar unas 5 a 6 horas de puro entretenimiento.

Vale su precio sin lugar a dudas.

Mi valoración final: 7/10

I am a huge fan of puzzle adventure games, particularly the Myst series, and this game definitely scratches that itch. The game does a better job of integrating the puzzles into the world than something like The Talos Principle or Faraway, so many puzzles feel like they have a connection to the story. The environments are beautiful and lushly detailed, which comes at the slight trade-off of the levels feeling a little bit on the small side.

In terms of difficulty, this game is on the easier end. Any object you can interact with, or information source you can inspect or read, is clearly marked when you approach it, and the main character writes down any puzzle-relevant information in her journal. The notes left by others that she comes across are fully marked-up already - important terms are circled or underlined to make clear what the player is supposed to take away from each scrap of paper. She also talks to herself extensively, offering her own realizations that reveal the links between different information in ways that help the player along towards a puzzle solution.

On the one hand, this avoids the frustration of overlooking subtle visual cues or having to parse out the important information from lengthy journals, as is sometimes the case in Myst games. On the other hand, it does feel a little like the protagonist connects most of the dots herself, leaving the player only to make a few remaining connections to complete the solution. It also affects the game length - the game is much shorter given that the protagonist essentially narrates a partial walkthrough as you play it.

On the whole, this was an enjoyable game with interesting puzzles in a beautiful world. Fans of real head-scratchers might be disappointed with the modest puzzle difficulty, but on the whole I think most players will enjoy the adventure.

Target Audience: Myst/Witness Lovers

Summary:
Call of the Sea does a great job of capturing the feeling of exploring an unknown island filled with mysterious puzzles and if this is starting to sound a lot like games like Myst, there's a reason for that. Although don't hold me to that entirely, I never played the original =(. The island, while having little faults with water going through the environment, is beautiful and feels like a vast world filled with little story elements around every corner. And while the main characters narration will turn off a subset of players due to how forced the exposition is, Norah does serve as interesting protagonist following in the footsteps of an expedition looking to find a cure for her illness. There's good characterization for all characters throughout the story in writing, environmental, and audio clues, and the voice acting by veterans of the genre shows as the performances are high-tier, with little hiccups now and again.

Puzzles wise, once you understand the idea that “HEY LOOK FOR ALL THE CLUES BEFORE YOUS TART SOLVING YOU DINGUS”, it works out rather well. They aren't complicated puzzles compared to some of the hair pulling ones in other games, but they are also going to make you think critically. Let me put it this way, there's no reason you should be looking up a guide here, in fact, doing that would kill the experience: the satisfaction is the process itself and figuring out the next hint, like how the 3 digit number you saw before now relates to a clue that you just found. You'll need to explore and take in all the sights and think about everything put in front of you, and if that doesn't sound like your type of game, then Call of the Sea is not for you. But if adventure and critical thinking is your game, then Call of the Sea is definitely one to look at.

It should be noted that several people have indicated some performance problems with the game, and while I never experienced it (even if I wondered at the start why I was dropping my frames on screen, it was due to the fact that vsync wasn't on >.<), keep that in mind.

Stream Footage: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/830595780


Lists:
Positives:

• Story has been seen before, but still told in an interesting way that makes you want to see what's around the next corner.
  
• Great characterization used for the most part with all forms being utilized (environmental, audio, notes, etc)
  
• World is beautiful and one that you can get lost in, feeling very Myst-isque.
  
• Smartly designed puzzles that balance the line of challenging the player without going too far over the line of frustration.
  
• Does capture the feeling of the era with era-appropriate dialogue and the way people talk with each other
  
• Sound and music elements play a secondary role, but do a good job of enhancing the visual presentation without becoming too overbearing.
  
• Reasonable set of graphical and other options to enhance the experience.

Negatives:

• Exposition from the main character can be a bit blunt at times, feeling like an information dump, and while I understand why the format is used, the voice can start to grind your mind at times due to the fact that it seems like it's always talking.
  
• Could have more actively used a hint system with the character questioning if they had all they needed, or do that earlier in the process. (if you're missing key data).
  
• Once in a while a graphical element will take you out of the game, especially with how water interacts with the rest of the environment.
  
• Sometimes, you wish you had a Segway to speed up walking to places that you know you need to get to. Granted, I know this was done to make the player think a bit at times, but it can get annoying when you don't follow the “right” path at first and have to make treks in the complete opposite direction.

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Its amazing what a bunch of creative individuals will do with the unreal engine. This game is no exception. I was surprised by how decent and well laid out this game was. I went into it pretty much not expecting or knowing anything about it (which helped add to the adventure!). A good solid adventure, some nice puzzles to work out along the way (none were really that difficult if you just stop, think and look at the hints and notebook entries), and a nice story to wrap it all together. Well done, and worth a thumbs up!

Call of the Sea是一个非常精致非常唯美的步行模拟解谜游戏。

这游戏的画风真的是太美了，从商店界面的截图也能看得出来，对于风景党又是一款必入的游戏。此外游戏还拥有着电影级的配乐，恢弘的交响乐搭配着唯美奇幻的画风，如同一幅壮丽而诡谲的画卷在玩家的面前徐徐展开——很少有游戏的艺术风格能够做得如此令人震撼。（硬是挑个刺的话，虽然游戏画风很棒，但是画质却并不怎样，感觉贴图不太行，画面主要依靠光影）

其实玩这游戏之前我还以为这个是探索解谜游戏，但实际上并不是：这游戏相当线性，而且地图也挺小的，根本没有什么可以探索的地方。解谜难度中等，由于主角每次解谜的时候都会把线索记在笔记本里所以看着笔记本解谜几乎不可能卡关。不过游戏也存在少数偏难的谜题，比如结局的星座谜题，还是要动点脑子。值得一提的是每次成功解谜之后游戏都会响起一段音乐来，前面也说过游戏配乐水准很高，所以每次解完谜都能让人震撼一把（特别是女主在山门唱歌把门打开的那个地方，真的是太宏伟了）。

除了游戏的艺术风格之外，我觉得游戏的题材也是一个亮点：这是一个克苏鲁题材的游戏。虽然我也玩过不少洛式风格的游戏，但是这些游戏要不然是恐怖游戏要不然是卡牌游戏，本作应该是我玩过的第一个非恐怖非卡牌的以克苏鲁神话为背景的冒险游戏。这种感觉挺神奇的，游戏里的深渊和古神并不会给人带来恐惧或是疯狂，而是带来了一种壮美感，一种奇幻感，仿佛我们世界之外的世界是一片无垠的世外桃源一般。 要是能与这美丽的世界融为一体，我愿意献上理智

抛去题材的新意后，游戏的剧情也就一般， 就看着一对老夫妻疯狂撒狗粮，再顺便给克总发个糖之类的 。游戏是双结局，分歧点是唯一的，其实两个结局都挺好的，好像这游戏根本没有BE，就让你选是GE1还是GE2。值得一提的是女主的配音水平非常高，给这个剧情加分不少。此外游戏的汉化质量也是顶尖的，虽然这种高水准的汉化往往有意译过头的问题。

所以说，这么美的游戏的OST和画集有理由不入吗？

Самая Лавкрафтовская игра из всех неЛавкрафтовских. Сюжет и атмосфера великолепны. Особенно отмечу атмосферу, которая проявляется как через прямой геймплей, так и через окружение и детали. Когда ты просто ходишь по острову, замечаешь какие-то вещи и к тебе начинает приходить понимание происходящего. Очень здорово. Головоломки качественные, все поддаются логике и ни одна не вызывает раздражения при прохождении. Они не чрезмерно сложные, но когда ты их успешно решаешь, приходит приятное удовлетворение. Имеется несколько вариантов концовок. Очень рекомендую игру всем любителям интересных историй и любителям игр-головоломок.

정보를 안보여주는데 퍼즐을 어떻게 깨요?? (대충 조세호 억울한 표정 콘)


하.. 너무 아쉬워.. 너무 아쉽다고!! 게임이!!!

고퀄의 그래픽과 진행하면 할 수록 감탄만 나오는 연출!! 그리고 무난하다고 느낄 수 있는 스토리지만 몰입도를 높혀주는 훌룡한 더빙!!! 근데 그걸 다 망치는 퍼즐!!!!

퍼즐요소만 이따구로 만들지 않았더라면.. 진짜 기립 박수 쳤을거야 난!

맵도 넓고 볼것도 많고 상호작용할것도 많은데 정작 상호작용이 되는 오브젝트 강조가 거의 없는 수준이라서 퍼즐 정보를 쉽게 찾을 수가 없음

가까이 가야지만 하얀색 작은 점이 생기고 코앞까지 가야지 작은 점이 작은 눈 모양으로 바뀜 근데 오브젝트가 눈에 잘뛰는 위치에만 있는게 아니라서 위 아래 구석구석 다 봐야됨

내가 바보라서 퍼즐을 못 푸는게 아니라 퍼즐 풀 정보 조차 쉽게 주질 않으니까 정보 찾으러 같은 장소 뺑뺑이 계속 돌고 있고; 자꾸 진행이 막혀서 플레이 할 의욕을 다 꺾어놔;;

거리가 조금 떨어져 있어도 잘보이게 흰색 테두리 같은걸로 오브젝트 강조 표시만 잘돼있었어도 퍼즐도 쉽게 진행되고 스토리 오브젝트 읽으면서 스토리도 막힘 없이 몰입도 있게 쭉쭉 진행하면 됐는데..

[오브젝트 강조 표시] 이거 하나만 제대로 만들었으면 이 게임은 최소 평작 혹은 수작 정도였을텐데 너무 아쉽다 아쉬워..

그래도 정말 좋았던 그래픽, 연출, 더빙때문에 추천 할 수 밖에 없다!


여담으로 혹시나 심해공포증 심하다면 피하는걸 추천 쪼끔.. 무서웠엉..

Für mich die Überraschung des Jahres!

Ich hatte das Spiel eher nebenbei mit auf die Wunschliste gesetzt, weil es vom Genre her wohl zu mir passte, und es unter Neuerscheinungen oder dieser Entdeckungsliste vorgeschlagen wurde.
Es war also dieser eine Titel, den man dann mal in einem besonders verlockenden Moment in einem Sale auch mal mitnehmen würde, wo man quasi nichts falsch machen kann.

Die erste positive Überraschung war für mich, als ich den Titel vollkommen unvorbereitet von einem Steam Kumpel anlässlich meines Geburtstages aus einem vorherigen HumbleBundle(?) geschenkt bekam, was mich sehr gefreut hat.
Natürlich habe ich das Teil dann sofort installiert und angespielt.

Und hier kam dann die zweite Überraschung:
Das Spiel ist wirklich mega gut gemacht!
Nicht nur die Grafik ist wirklich super schön und lässt einen auch mal einfach so herumlaufen und schauen, nein, auch die Geschichte, die erzählt wird, zieht einen gleich von Anfang an in seinen Bann.
Es ist so, also würde man einen tollen Abenteuerfilm selbst erleben.
Ihr mögt Mystery wie Lovecraft, alte Inselgeschichten mit vergessenen/unbekannten Zivilisationen und verlassene Lager und Städte, Abenteuerfilme wie Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider usw.?
Das ist euer Spiel!

Und es ist weitaus mehr als nur ein Walking Simulator, der durch Grafik und Story glänzt, es ist auch ein gut gemachtes Rätselspiel.
Wir durchlaufen und stöbern also nicht nur die Gegend und Fundorte, sondern wir heben auch Dinge auf und kombinieren diese und müssen etliche Rätsel lösen, um in der Geschichte und vor allem dem erkundbaren Gebiet voran zu kommen.

Ja, Geschichte und Gebiet. Denn das besondere Alleinstellungsmerkmal in diesem Spiel ist, dass wir ein Tagebuch führen, was uns zum einen die Handlung und Geschehnisse protokolliert und in der Gesamtheit erschließt, zum anderen führen wir eine Notizsammlung für die zahlreichen Rätsel zusammen, was für uns dann quasi als Hilfestellung zur Lösung dient.
Also alles, was wir uns anschauen, kann und wird uns mehr zur Geschichte erzählen und die Rätsel vereinfachen.

Natürlich muss man nicht alle Seiten und Hilfestellungen durch Sammelitems und angeschaute Objekte füllen, das Spiel lässt sich auch so beenden und das Groß an Story bekommt man so oder so mit.
Sollten wir aber nicht alles finden, so fehlen natürlich Einträge auf den Seiten, wodurch dann vielleicht mal ein paar Zusatzinformationen für die Storyhintergründe fehlen, oder aber entscheidende Hinweise für ein Rätsel, was dieses dann mitunter schwerer oder gar zum Ratespiel werden lässt, wo man dann die Kombinationen durchspielt, bis es klappt.

An dieser Stelle möchte ich für Jäger und Sammler klar stellen, dass ein 100% Spielstand durchaus in einem Rutsch machbar ist. Man sollte sich aber mit den Anforderungen für jedes Kapitel vertraut machen, dazu gibt es einen guten Guide.
Eine sehr gute Hilfestellung für Sammelobjekte ist, dass man sehr aufmerksam beobachten sollte, ob sich alle Seiten im Tagebuch füllen.
Man sollte also eindeutige Gebietsübergange, wichtige Ereignisse und vor allem Kapitelenden vorsichtig begehen, und lieber mal einen der 4 Spielstände sichern.
Mir ist es einmal im Spiel passiert, dass ich im zweiten Kapitel einen alten Spielstand laden musste, weil ich was übersehen hatte.

Wenn ich es richtig in Erinnerung habe, kann man aber nach Abschluss des Spiel die einzelnen Kapitel noch einmal einzeln auswählen und diese Dinge nachholen.
Das Buch behält seine Inhalte und füllt sich dann auch noch mit dem Rest auf.
Nur ist es natürlich blöd, wenn man in mehreren Kapiteln was vergessen hat, und man muss das dann alles neu durchlaufen, bis man es gefunden hat.
Mir war das auch hier tatsächlich passiert, dass ich für ein Rätsel mit den Gesichtsfratzen nicht alles bei den Hütten gesichtet hatte.
Ich weiß noch, dass ich deswegen in die Lösung geschaut hatte.
Da dachte, ich sei zu blöd die Lösung zu erahnen.
Jetzt wusste ich, ich hatte nicht alle Hilfen gefunden, danach war es auch für mich lösbar gewesen.
Also deshalb noch einmal hier der Hinweis: kommt man nicht auf die Lösung, hat man vielleicht nicht alle Tipps.
Schaut also in den Guide, der alle Seiten aus dem Tagebuch auflistet.
Fehlen irgendwelche Krickeleien, schaut euch noch einmal genauer um.
Es sind nicht immer nur Items, manchmal muss man sich in der Gegend auch etwas anschauen. Wandmalereien oder ein besonderer Blick aufs Meer etc..

Ich möchte an dieser Stelle gar nicht mehr weiter auf das Spiel eingehen, ihr solltet es einfach selbst erleben.
Es war für mich eine der ganz besonderen Spielerfahrungen 2022, wenn nicht DAS Adventurehighlight überhaupt!
Ich wünsche euch schon jetzt viel Spaß damit. :-)

Fazit: kaufen, kaufen, kaufen - oder einfach wie ich mal schenken lassen :-)

Každý příběh musí jednou skončit a člověku je z toho smutno, ale zároveň cítí radost a naplnění, že si jej mohl prožít. Projít tu jedinečnou cestu a poznat tajemství, která se skrývají na jejím konci a v Call of the Sea je rozhodně co objevovat.

Příběh mě opravdu vtáhl a nebýt povinností mého reálného života, tak bych jej prošel na jeden zátach. Bylo těžké se odpoutat, když jste tak dychtiví zjistit co je za dalším rohem, za další hádankou. Nakonec jsem po třech dnech a šesti odehraných hodinách došel na konec, který byl dojemný, těžký, bolestivý ale i krásný. Minimálně ve mě vyvolal silnou citovou odezvu a to je asi to nejlepší co mi může jakákoli hra dát.

Vaší herní postavou je Norah, která se, ač stižena chorobou, vydává do tichimoří hledat svého manžela Harryho. Ten se tam vydal před nějakou dobou v naději, že nalezne lék na záhadnou nemoc, která Norah postihla. Jdete tak po stopách jeho expedice a přes všemožné poznámky, dopisy a fotky postupně odhalujete její příběh. Zároveň však odhalujete i osud samotné Norah, která v tichimoří nalézá sama sebe.

Hratelností a vizuální stránkou mi Call of the Sea dost připomíná hru Firewatch. Ovšem na rozdíle od něj zde hraje prim řešení hádanek, po vzoru klasických adventur jako je třema MYST. Samotné hádanky nejsou příliš jednoduché, aby jste nad nimi nemuseli moc přemýšlet, ale ani příliš složité, aby jste se nad nimi dlouho zasekli a nevěděli jak dál. Sám jsem měl jen jeden větší zásek, ale ten byl způsoben vyloženě mou chybou, protože jsem zaměnil jednu indicii hned na začátků bádání.

Moc pěkným herním prvkem, je váš diář, do kterého si Norah zaznamenává své dosavadní prožitky a zároveň do něj zakreslu jednotlivé indicie, které nachází ve svém okolí, pro řešení hádanek. Je to velice praktické, protože nemusíte neustále pobíhat sem a tam a připomínat si, kde co bylo, ale jednoduše si kdykoliv a kdekoliv otevřete diář a najdete tam vše potřebné. Tedy, pokud jste předtím vše prošli a řádně si to zaznačili. Ale věřte mi, zatraceně vám to ušetří spoustu času a běhání sem a tam.

Nerad si o hrách, zvláště těch příběhových, zjišťuji dopředu jakékoliv informace. A až při samotném hraní jsem byl velice příjemně překvapen zjištěním, že vše se odehrává ve světě H. P. Lovecrafta. Svou silně stylizovanou grafikou dost klame tělem a ač autoři vypráví vlastní příběh, nádherně vše zapadá do lovecraftovského vesmíru. Takže, pokud patříte mezi milovního tohoto prokletého spisovatele, rozhodně by Call od the Sea nemělo ujít vaší pozornosti.

Stejně tak bych hru doporučil komukoliv, kdo má objevitelského ducha a miluje hry jak Dear Esther, Draugen, či již zmíněný Firewatch. Díky svému jednoduchému ovládání a nenásilnému pojetí bych se nebál hru doporučit i méně zkušeným hráčům či absolutním nováčkům.

V době kdy vychází dlouho vyvíjený, mnohokrát odkládaný a všemi extrémně očekávaný titul Cyberpunk 2077, jsem si dovolil sáhnou po tomto malém a nenápadné titulu a rozhodně toho nelituji. Ano, časem se určitě dostanu i k Cyberpunku a bude to patrně super, ale myslím, že i tak zůstane Call of the Sea zapsáno hlouběji v mém srdci a mých vzpomínkách.

Děkuji autorům ze studia Out of the Blue, za tento krásný prožitek a již se moc těším na jejich další kousek.

Иногда любовь — это одержимость. Иногда — нежная забота. А иногда — способность пойти на любые жертвы ради человека в своем сердце...

Хотите узнать историю такой любви?

Какие тут бывают потрясающие виды... 

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ПЛЮСЫ

• Изумительный сюжет. И нет, главная его фишка — это не истинная причина болезни Норы, а ее искренняя любовь к Гарри, ее мужу и коллеге, которая, в буквальном смысле, способна преодолеть что угодно! В конце концов, на дворе — 1934 год, и Нору никак нельзя назвать еще одной Ларой Крофт: она довольно хрупкая женщина, отправившаяся на загадочный остров, где пропала экспедиция ее мужа, в платье и шляпке, так что энергичных забегов и яростных сражений от нее не ждите... но будет сполна настойчивости, упорства и несгибаемой силы воли, что позволит героине в одиночку преодолеть множество преград и раскрыть-таки тайну исчезновения ее любимого.
  
• Двойная концовка. Это, конечно, не самый большой плюс, но мне очень понравилась возможность в конце игры сделать выбор и увидеть две разные сцены после титров, отражавшие будущее героев. Обязательно сохранитесь в последней комнате и посмотрите оба варианта будущего — они того стоят!
  
• Много дополнительных источников информации. Изучая различные фотографии, записки и заметки, Нора будет узнавать историю того, как путешествовал по острову ее супруг, а также окунаться в еще более древнюю историю тысячелетней выдержки, которая расскажет о прошлом острова и его жителей. Благодаря этому не только оживляется топанье от точки А до точки B (врагов и ловушек на острове нет, и единственное, что разнообразит путешествие — следующий пункт), но и дается возможность узнать еще одну захватывающую историю, где будут и убийства, и предательства, и мистические голоса, сводящие команду Гарри Эверхарта с ума. Все же не зря разработчики признались, что вдохновлялись творчеством Лавкрафта: в игре просто уйма отсылок к безднам океана и всяким хтоническим ужасам, в ней сокрытым.
  
• Головоломки на любой вкус. В последнее время в играх стало модным делать головоломки, которые решит даже пятиклашка, поэтому я была приятно удивлена, столкнувшись с некоторыми задачками в «Call of the Sea»! Они не то, чтобы прямо очень-очень заковыристые, но все же довольно-таки сложные, и подсказки приходится искать буквально по всей локации, не надеясь, что Нору внезапно «озарит», после чего она сама нажмет кнопки в нужном порядке!
  
• Потрясающие графика и музыка. Без дураков: я буквально зависала на некоторых кадрах, а музыка и вовсе послала меня в Гугл, искать местный саундтрек для личного пользования.

Заставки между главами хочется распечатать и повесить на стену. ^_^ 

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МИНУСЫ

• Нора довольно медлительна. Даже попав на чудо-остров, героиня не начинает скакать резвой козочкой, так что большую часть времени мы будем передвигаться со скоростью всполошенной черепахи. Уж потерпите, сделайте скидку на продолжительную болезнь...
  
• Порой приходится тыкаться во все углы. Частично мое недовольство этим пунктом связано с первым минусом, но помимо этого играют роль немаленькие размеры локаций, неспособность Норы подниматься по чему-то кроме лестниц (хотя иногда она ловко карабкается по скалам, но это чисто в рамках сюжета) и, скажем так, незаметные указатели на интерактивный предмет: сначала появляется белая точечка, а при приближении она превращается в значок глаза или шестеренки. Пропустить ее — раз плюнуть... и да, я потратила полчаса, гадая, куда мне дальше идти, пока не заглянула в прохождение и не нашла очередную «точечку» за ящиками! Уф-ф, выбесило...

В последний раз такие классные заплывы у меня были в ABZU! 

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ИТОГО

Вышла очень трогательная история, пусть нелюбителей «старомодных» квестов она может отпугнуть... но поверьте, «Call of the Sea» стоит того, чтобы с ней познакомиться. Так что давайте вместе с Норой, решительной, умной и образованной героиней, отправимся на белые песчаные пляжи, чтобы чуть погодя исследовать разбитое китобойное судно, пробираться по мокрым скалам, плыть среди сверкающих медуз и напевать красивую мелодию, вышагивая навстречу собственной судьбе...

Или же вы предпочтете для нее иной путь?

Общая оценка: ОТЛИЧНО

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Call of the Sea è un puzzle adventure sviluppato da Out of the Blue e pubblicato da Raw Fury. Il gioco è disponibile dall’8 dicembre 2020 su PC, Xbox One e Xbox Series X.

Anno 1934. Norah Everhart è una giovane donna affetta da una misteriosa malattia tramandata nella sua famiglia e che porta inevitabilmente alla morte in età prematura. Il marito di Norah, Harry Everhart, parte per una spedizione nell’Oceano Pacifico alla ricerca di una cura che possa far guarire la moglie. Norah, indispettita dall’assenza di informazioni da parte di Harry, decide di partire alla volta del Pacifico poco dopo aver ricevuto un pacco pieno di oggetti proveniente da Tahiti. Una volta arrivata scopre che Harry si è avventurato su un’isola di cui i locali hanno paura perfino a pronunciare il nome, ma dove Norah troverà molto più di ciò che stava cercando.

Out of the Blue ci pone davanti ad un’avventura in prima persona ispirata ai racconti di H.P. Lovecraft che alterna paesaggi coloratissimi ad altri tipici della tradizione horror lovecraftiana (chi ne ha letto i racconti o ha giocato a titoli come The Sinking City o Call of Cthulu si sarà fatto già un’idea). Attenzione però: Call of the Sea non è un horror, seppur in alcune situazioni è possibile percepire una certa tensione nell’aria. In ogni capitolo dovrete quindi risolvere un puzzle “principale” che necessita però la risoluzione prima di alcuni enigmi più piccoli che vi permetteranno di proseguire. Ad ogni puzzle risolto verrete a conoscenza di un tassello aggiuntivo della storia ed è interessante scoprire i fatti gradualmente e non tutto d’un fiato alla fine.

Un altro aiuto che gli sviluppatori hanno voluto fornirci è il diario di Norah. Questo infatti fungerà non solo da riassunto della trama percorsa fino ad ora, ma anche da aiuto per gli enigmi visto che la giovane protagonista appunterà su di esso qualsiasi disegno o schema incontrato per la via (che ovviamente si traduce nel collezionare indizi per risolvere l’enigma di turno). Non ci sono puzzle particolarmente difficili durante il gioco, il vero problema è la poca chiarezza che viene fornita negli aiuti per risolverli. Nella maggior parte dei casi infatti si riesce a capire “cosa” bisogna fare, ma non “come” e quindi mi sono ritrovato spesso a dover andare a tentativi.

Call of the Sea non è però solo enigmi. Gli ambienti sono piuttosto estesi (e lo sembrano ancora di più vista la velocità ♥♥♥ cui Norah si muove) e pieni di documenti, registrazioni e foto lasciate dalla spedizione di Harry. Tutto ciò permette a noi di avere un’idea più chiara della storia, ma non è obbligatorio leggerli o raccoglierli tutti (lo si può fare anche in una seconda run tanto che alla fine del gioco il mio diario era completo al 98%) visto che l’obiettivo principale è risolvere il già citato enigma principale. Per invogliare ad esplorare inoltre il gioco è totalmente privo di HUD o mappa di ogni sorta, ma ammetto che spesso sarebbe stata utile averne una giusto per avere un’indicazione dei luoghi già visitati.

La longevità si aggira intorno alle 8 ore. A parte il completamento del diario e la possibilità di vedere entrambi i finali (non influenzati dalle azioni del gioco, ma solo dalla scelta finale), non c’è motivo di ricominciare il gioco. Passando al lato tecnico, non sono stati riscontrati bug o problemi a parte qualche calo di frame rate. Il gioco è inglese sottotitolato in italiano ed è interessante la possibilità di selezionare i sottotitoli per non udenti.

Tirando le somme, Call of the Sea si gioca ♥♥♥ tranquillità senza troppe difficoltà o intoppi. La trama è il suo punto forte, capace di tenervi incollati allo schermo in attesa della sorpresa finale. Forse l’unico punto debole che vogliamo sottolineare è la “pochezza” degli enigmi che richiedono più fortuna che tecnica in certi casi. Consigliato a coloro che vogliono godersi un po’ di inquietudine senza che questa diventi per forza paura.

VOTO: 7.0

+Trama interessante
+Tanto da esplorare
+Finali multipli
-Enigmi a tentativi

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Beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed experiencing everything with Norah and I can only recommend this game. Stunning world and even better story. The only issue I had were the puzzles later in the game, but I only have my pea sized brain to blame for that one. So all in all, I encourage you to embark on this adventure with Mrs. Everheart.

Charming environment and art design, strong voice acting, and interesting take on Lovecraftian tropes are bogged down by puzzles that are sometimes totally obtuse, a host of plot questions left after the credits roll, and a walking speed and amount of backtracking that should be illegal.

Not bad, but wait for it to go on sale.

Любой, кто хоть немного вхож в бурные потоки информации "всех этих ваших интернетов" наверняка заметил растущий в игропроме спрос на Мэри Сью сильных женских персонажей. В данной игре женский персонаж силён ни чуточку не иронично. Да, она не имеет крутой мускулатуры или целого арсенала в кармане. Даже бегает медленно. Но чёрт подери, какой же у этой девчонки несгибаемый нрав!

На секундочку, события игры происходят в 30хх годах, когда мир был большой, страшный, а потерявшегося туриста не искали с вертолётом. Потому что не было ещё вертолётов в широком обиходе.


Предыстория такова:

Главная героиня, Нора Эверхарт, больна неизвестной болезнью, медленно пожирающей её. Внешние симптомы проявлялись в странных тёмных пятнах, которые появлялись на руках (из-за них протагонист носит перчатки на руках). Остальные симптомы классика: слабость, угасание и т.д. Вишенкой на этом дьявольском тортике оказалась неспособность докторов что-либо предпринять. Но муж главной героини с таким не смирился и бросился на поиски лекарства. Поиски его привели к организации экспедиции, держащей курс на острова Полинезии... И там-то этот самый сердечный друг и пропал. И вроде бы как всё: пускайте титры, экспедиция стала жертвой неукротимой силы природы, но в один день Норе приходит посылка на её имя. В посылке были только координаты и странный, похожий на ритуальный нож. Нож культа, о котором никто ничего не знает. Ну и Нора, поняв что это точно связано с её мужем, плывёт на тот самый остров, который был указан в письме.

Всем бы такую жену, честное слово.


ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ

Процесс игры довольно прост и незатейлив, спинной мозг можете оставить для шутеров от первого лица. Вам предстоит много ходить и много думать, хотя большая часть головоломок довольно проста. Ходите по локациям, собирайте записки и подсказки, чтобы найти способ как пройти дальше и восстановить закономерность событий, которые произошли тут до вас.

ГРАФИКА

Игра сделана немного в мультяшном стиле с очень, на мой вкус, яркими цветами. Когда в неё играешь, создаётся впечатление что вы, будучи ребёнком, включили что-то вроде Индианы Джонса или Жемчужины Нила в воскресное утро, когда вам никуда не надо. Только сюжет Лавкрафтовский. И если что я вам этого не говорил.

Отдельно похвалю пейзажи в этой игре и игру света на некоторых локациях. Я был в восторге, рекомендую также заценить.


ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ

Игра довольно простенькая, так что для получения лагов и багов придётся сильно постараться. Любителям спидрана придётся подвинуться, так как разогнать больную женщину до скорости 9,8 м/с не получится при всём желании.



Игру рекомендую к прохождению, она коротенькая, с хорошим сюжетом (поклонники Лавкрафта оценят особенно из-за некоторых отсылок на книги. Одна точно заставит подумать "А точно ли болезнь у Норы?")

Любителям динамичных игрушек-пострелушек не зайдёт: вы будете себя чувствовать так, будто пришли в ночной клуб, немного напились, уже думаете что сейчас покажете всем как надо трясти своими достоинствами... и внезапно вместо клубняка заиграет ноктюрн Шопена. Вот именно это чувство вы и испытаете, зайдя в эту игру.

Всем остальным рекомендую захватить простой карандаш. Его не размывают тропические дожди, если вы не уберегли от них свой дневник.

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